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1. Animal (I) (2023)
Not Rated | 204 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The hardened son of a powerful industrialist returns home after years abroad and vows to take bloody revenge on those threatening his father's life.
Director: Sandeep Reddy Vanga | Stars: Ranbir Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Rashmika Mandanna
Votes: 90,495
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
PG-13 | 146 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
As Harry, Ron and Hermione race against time and evil to destroy the Horcruxes, they uncover the existence of the three most powerful objects in the wizarding world: the Deathly Hallows.
Director: David Yates | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Bill Nighy
Votes: 600,265 | Gross: $295.98M
3. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
PG-13 | 161 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The people of Wakanda fight to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T'Challa.
Director: Ryan Coogler | Stars: Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke
Votes: 306,567 | Gross: $453.72M
4. The Untouchables (1987)
R | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
During Prohibition, Treasury agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and assembles a small, incorruptible team to help him.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Charles Martin Smith
Votes: 331,284 | Gross: $76.27M
5. Cobra (1986)
R | 87 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far-reaching plans.
Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson
Votes: 79,734 | Gross: $49.04M
6. There Is No Evil (2020)
151 min | Drama
The four stories that are variations on the crucial themes of moral strength and the death penalty that ask to what extent individual freedom can be expressed under a despotic regime and its seemingly inescapable threats.
Director: Mohammad Rasoulof | Stars: Baran Rasoulof, Zhila Shahi, Mahtab Servati, Mohammad Seddighimehr
Votes: 6,205
7. Yannick (2023)
67 min | Comedy, Drama
In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a very bad boulevard comedy, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.
Director: Quentin Dupieux | Stars: Raphaël Quenard, Pio Marmaï, Blanche Gardin, Sébastien Chassagne
Votes: 4,559
8. Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.
Director: Shun'ya Itô | Stars: Meiko Kaji, Rie Yokoyama, Yayoi Watanabe, Yôko Mihara
Votes: 4,885
9. The Assignment (1997)
R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
An American naval officer is recruited for an operation to eliminate his lookalike, the infamous terrorist Carlos The Jackal.
Director: Christian Duguay | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, Ben Kingsley, Claudia Ferri
Votes: 10,000 | Gross: $0.54M
10. The Key to Rebecca (1985 TV Movie)
R | 194 min | Drama, Romance, War
In Cairo during World War II, a German Agent tries to infiltrate the British command to lay the groundwork for Erwin Rommel's conquest of Egypt.
Director: David Hemmings | Stars: Cliff Robertson, David Soul, Season Hubley, Lina Raymond
Votes: 528
11. Point Blank (1998)
R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates are being transferred to a new facility. The escapees storm a shopping mall and take a ... See full summary »
Director: Matt Earl Beesley | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Danny Trejo, Frederic Forrest, Werner Schreyer
Votes: 1,922
12. The St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959)
Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A gang's plans for a St. Louis bank robbery are complicated when the sister of one of the thieves starts voicing her well-founded suspicions.
Directors: Charles Guggenheim, John Stix | Stars: Steve McQueen, Crahan Denton, David Clarke, James Dukas
Votes: 1,711
13. Pleasure Shop on 7th Avenue (1979)
89 min | Thriller
Two amateur armed robbers steal $5,000 from NY's red light district, only to discover it was an intended protection payment to the mob. With Mafia hit men after them they seek shelter in a sleazy sex shop.
Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Annamaria Clementi, Brigitte Petronio, Maxmilian Vhener, Ernesto Colli
Votes: 328
14. The Boys Club (1996)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
In Ontario, Canada, three fourteen-year-old boys, Kyle, Brad and Eric are forced to perform an ordeal when they find a wounded mysterious fugitive named Luke, who has a gun and claiming to be a cop, has taken a hiding in their clubhouse.
Director: John Fawcett | Stars: Chris Penn, Dominic Zamprogna, Stuart Stone, Devon Sawa
Votes: 1,347
15. Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Drama
When poor peasants kidnap a magistrate's daughter to coerce him into reducing their unfair taxes, a wandering ronin decides to give them some help.
Director: Hideo Gosha | Stars: Tetsurô Tanba, Isamu Nagato, Mikijirô Hira, Miyuki Kuwano
Votes: 4,001
16. Ang probinsyano (1996)
118 min | Action, Drama
Ador (Fernando Poe Jr.) is killed in a drug bust operation after he was betrayed by his fellow cop. His superior devices a plan for his twin brother, Kardo, a provincial cop, to assume his ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Poe Jr. | Stars: Fernando Poe Jr., Dindi Gallardo, Amanda Page, Melisse Santiago
Votes: 79
17. Swamp Women (1956)
Approved | 67 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
An undercover policewoman helps three female convicts escape from prison so that they can lead her to a stash of stolen diamonds hidden in a swamp.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Marie Windsor, Carole Mathews, Beverly Garland, Mike Connors
Votes: 2,032
18. Valentine (2017)
TV-14 | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Man recruits girl under the guise of making a movie, while really trying to turn her into a masked vigilante.
Directors: Agus Hermansyah Mawardy, Ubay Fox, Agus Pestol | Stars: Estelle Linden, Arie Dagienkz, Matthew Settle, Ahmad Affandy
Votes: 981
19. R.A.I.D. Special Unit (2016)
Not Rated | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A clumsy girl dreams about joining to an elite special forces team.
Director: Dany Boon | Stars: Alice Pol, Dany Boon, Michel Blanc, Yvan Attal
Votes: 4,502
20. Murder in Maussane (2017 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Maussane, at the very heart of Provence, with its olive trees and its charming squares. Deputy prosecutor Elisabeth Richard and local police commander Paul Jansac are investigating the murder of Caroline Autiero, wife of an old mill-owner.
Director: Éric Duret | Stars: Florence Pernel, Vincent Winterhalter, Isabel Otero, Garance Thénault
Votes: 107
21. Murder in Aigues-Mortes (2015 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Assistant prosecutor Elisabeth Richard and police chief Paul Jansac re-team to solve the consecutive murders of a young lawyer and a realtor in Aigues-Mortes, France, who both turn out to be suspects in an unsolved rape two years prior.
Director: Claude-Michel Rome | Stars: Florence Pernel, Vincent Winterhalter, Samuel Labarthe, Ludovic Berthillot
Votes: 129
22. Matang agila (1997)
Action
Directors: Teddy Gomez, Phillip Ko | Stars: Monsour Del Rosario, Anjanette Abayari, Zoren Legaspi, Raymond Keannu
Votes: 9
23. Chongqing Blues (2010)
110 min | Drama
Lin, a sea captain, returns from a 6 month journey when he is told that his 25-year-old son Lin Bo has been gunned down by the police. In his quest to understand what happened, he realizes ... See full summary »
Director: Xiaoshuai Wang | Stars: Xueqi Wang, Bingbing Fan, Hao Qin, Ziyi Wang
Votes: 300
24. Three Days of Terror: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks (2016 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 60 min | Documentary, Crime
Three Days of Terror: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks examines the 2015 terrorist attack on the French satirical weekly newspaper "Charlie Hebdo" where a group of armed Islamic terrorist with ... See full summary »
Director: Dan Reed | Stars: Dan Reed, Martin Boudot, Mathilde Queru
Votes: 246
25. Menace sur Kermadec (2022 TV Movie)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A man is found dead at the foot of a cliff. Captain Marie Breguet who wanted to leave the region will have to stay a little longer to solve this crime. She will find a mysterious man on her way and fight to protect her daughter Lili.
Director: Bruno Garcia | Stars: Claire Keim, David Kammenos, Axel Mandron, Samy Naceri
Votes: 69
26. Silver Dragon Ninja (1986)
Not Rated | 85 min | Adventure, Action, Crime
A female cop bravely goes undercover to bust a black ninja operation. Lots of swordplay ensues, as our heroine battles it out ninja-style in order to cover up her true identity and stop ... See full summary »
Director: Don Kong | Stars: Harry Caine, Eddy Chan, Conrad Chow, Philip Gamboa
Votes: 114
27. Gundala Putra Petir (1981)
Action, Sci-Fi
Is an 1981 Indonesia superhero movie directed by Lilik Sudijo. This film played by Teddy Purba, Ami Prijono and W.D. Mochtar. This is the first superhero film in Indonesia that adapted by comic book
Director: Liliek Sudjio | Stars: Teddy Purba, Anna Tairas, W.D. Mochtar, Ami Priyono
Votes: 148
28. Deportees 3 (2011)
112 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
The war is over and the deportees are back to their homes and each is after his life. A TV-show is trying to meet some old veterans of war. One of them who is very sick should go to ... See full summary »
Director: Masoud Dehnamaki | Stars: Akbar Abdi, Kamand Amirsoleimani, Afshin Arashtanabieh, Naser Azad
Votes: 1,803
29. Operation Cobra (1995)
R | 90 min | Action
A family is held prisoner in their own house, when a summit conference is to be held in Nærum. The terrorist group has the plan of preventing this meeting and therefor capturing a family, ... See full summary »
Director: Lasse Spang Olsen | Stars: Kasper Tuxen, Dejan Cukic, Robert Hansen, Anders Schoubye
Votes: 245
30. Extracurricular (2019)
101 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
The recently divorced father of a nine-year-old, furious his daughter can't spend her birthday with him, bursts into her classroom with a birthday cake and a rifle. A hostage crisis ensues,... See full summary »
Director: Ivan-Goran Vitez | Stars: Milivoj Beader, Zeljko Königsknecht, Anita Matic Delic, Marko Cindric
Votes: 276
31. Jasur (2012)
82 min | Action, Drama
A group of Islamic terrorists take a bus with hostages nearby border of Uzbekistan, but one of passengers manages to call to her husband - captain of frontier guard Jasur. He starts in pursuit of the bus.
Directors: Nazhmiddin Gulyamov, Bahodir Odilov | Stars: Mirolim Qilichev, Jamila Gafurova, Laziz Musaev, Gulxumor Abdullayeva
32. A Spark of Light
Drama | Pre-production
In Spark Of Light, a reproductive health clinic's routine day of service turns tragic when a disturbed gunman takes hostages. The staff and several women receiving care face a tense standoff.
33. Humanda ka... Ikaw ang susunod (1987)
Action
Policeman Galo's mission is to catch a heavy syndicate but because of his mission, his family may be affected. Can he solve everything without harming anyone?
Director: Nilo Saez | Stars: Rudy Fernandez, Beth Bautista, Al Tantay, Yusuf Salim
34. Legge di guerra (1961)
103 min | War, Drama
During WW2, in a Nazi-occupied country, a local partisan blows-up a German military train, prompting the Germans to take civilian hostages to be shot if the culprit doesn't surrender before a deadline.
Director: Bruno Paolinelli | Stars: Mel Ferrer, Magali Noël, Peter van Eyck, Jean Desailly
Votes: 54
35. Par le sang des autres (1974)
96 min | Drama
In a little French town everything goes on as usual and people seem friendly and good-natured, until the day two women arrive from Paris. A man gets off the same bus, and that very night he... See full summary »
Director: Marc Simenon | Stars: Yves Beneyton, Francis Blanche, Bernard Blier, Robert Castel
Votes: 52
36. I, Hostage (2019– )
Documentary
Stars: John Barnard, Moses Suzuki, Steve Pacaud, Tyson Wagner
Votes: 9
37. Vaurien (2018)
90 min | Drama
Director: Mehdi Senoussi | Stars: Romane Bohringer, Carlo Brandt, Lizzie Brocheré, Phénix Brossard
Votes: 20
38. Private Party (1987)
Drama
After the coup of 1953, four convicts escape while they are being taken to jail and attack the home of a foreign ministry official and take everyone hostage. Guests decide to choose two to accompany the convicts so they can escape abroad.
Director: Hassan Hedayat | Stars: Hadi Eslami, Parviz Poorhosseini, Mohammad Barsoozian, Asghar Zamani
Votes: 21
39. Who Killed Mary Sue (2017)
Short, Thriller
Three hostages realize they know each other. All three are the number one suspect for Mary Sue's murder and their captor is bent on finding out which one is the killer.
Director: Justin Kueber | Stars: Corrina Cornforth, Alice Creed, Shannon Hunt, Katrina Angelica Lopez
40. The Heist (III) (2014)
4 min | Short, Action, Thriller
Director: Dale Pendlebury | Stars: Tom Brown, Joel Foxon, Lauren Kenny, Melchior Maranowski
42.
The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode:
Am Abgrund
(1994)
57 min | Crime, Drama
The police has made a raid in a clandestine game house: among the clients of this house there's Dr. Martin Hector, a game addict who has great gambling debts.Recently a man who had great ... See full summary »
Director: Helmuth Ashley | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Charles M. Huber, Markus Böttcher
Votes: 18
43.
The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode:
Der Zigeuner
(1981)
56 min | Crime, Drama
On a cold wet day a patrol car approaches an isolated farm.One of the policemen gets out to check the house.Suddenly he sees a young man behind a car, asks him him to throw away his ... See full summary »
Director: Theodor Grädler | Stars: Siegfried Lowitz, Michael Ande, Jan Hendriks, Henning Schlüter
Votes: 27
44.
The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode:
So gut wie tot
(1990)
58 min | Crime, Drama
Christian Kamp has arrived at the building of the company of his father,Irene Westfal, the main secretary, says Mr.Walter Kamp that his son is in the building.Irene Westfal goes out of the ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Weidenmann | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Charles M. Huber, Markus Böttcher
Votes: 22
45.
Derrick (1974–1998)
Episode:
An einem Montagmorgen
(1986)
58 min | Crime, Drama
A bank robbery goes down on a peaceful Monday morning. A foolishly brave customer rips the mask off from one of the robbers, and is shot right after. Derrick recognizes the shooter from the surveillance tape.
Director: Jürgen Goslar | Stars: Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Willy Schäfer, Christine Ostermayer
Votes: 84
46.
Greg the Bunny (2002–2004)
Episode:
Welcome to Sweetknuckle Junction
(2002)
TV-14 | Comedy
Greg the Bunny successfully prods his slacker buddy Jimmy (Seth Green) Bender to ask his dad (Eugene Levy) the director of a cable children show 'Sweetknuckle Junction' for an off camera ... See full summary »
Director: Mike Mitchell | Stars: Eugene Levy, Seth Green, Bob Gunton, Sarah Silverman
Votes: 43
47.
The John Larroquette Show (1993–1996)
Episode:
Grit
(1994)
Comedy
Eggers (Elizabeth Berridge) develops a crush on John (John Larroquette) after he rescues her from a crazed gunman.
Director: John Whitesell | Stars: John Larroquette, Liz Torres, Gigi Rice, Daryl Mitchell
Votes: 37
48.
Kenan & Kel (1996–2023)
Episode:
Ditch Day Afternoon
(1997)
TV-Y7 | 25 min | Comedy, Family
Kenan and Kel play sick to get out of school for the day. When they go to the bank to get money for the arcade, they get stuck in the middle of a robbery.
Director: Kim Fields | Stars: Kenan Thompson, Kel Mitchell, Ken Foree, Teal Marchande
Votes: 71
49.
Lady Cop (1994–2006)
Episode:
Abgestempelt
(1999)
48 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Stamped.
Director: Charly Weller | Stars: Hannelore Elsner, Thomas Scharff, Mario Irrek, Ulrich Matschoss
50.
Lady Cop (1994–2006)
Episode:
Banküberfall
(1996)
48 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Bank robbery.
Director: Charly Weller | Stars: Hannelore Elsner, Til Schweiger, Christoph M. Ohrt, Christian Redl