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1. The Truman Show (1998)
PG | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich
Votes: 1,202,800 | Gross: $125.62M
2. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
TV-MA | 117 min | Drama
In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti
Votes: 66,157
3. Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
G | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission searches for the only survivor of the previous expedition. He discovers a planet ruled by apes and an underground city run by telepathic humans.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, Linda Harrison
Votes: 53,043 | Gross: $19.00M
4. Orphan (2009)
R | 123 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she appears.
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra | Stars: Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman, CCH Pounder
Votes: 253,708 | Gross: $41.60M
5. Apostle (2018)
TV-MA | 130 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In 1905, a drifter on a dangerous mission to rescue his kidnapped sister tangles with a sinister religious cult on an isolated island.
Director: Gareth Evans | Stars: Dan Stevens, Richard Elfyn, Paul Higgins, Bill Milner
Votes: 59,383
6. Synecdoche, New York (2008)
R | 124 min | Drama
A theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Director: Charlie Kaufman | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener
Votes: 98,609 | Gross: $3.08M
7. Daughters of Eve (1985)
TV-MA | 125 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A young woman chooses celibacy, turns to religion, and demonizes men in order to control her intense sexual desire. Her sister suddenly visits her seaside village, which opens many old wounds and leads to tragedies.
Director: Elwood Perez | Stars: Sarsi Emmanuelle, Maria Isabel Lopez, Myra Manibog, Mark Joseph
Votes: 1,338
8. Toward the Unknown (1956)
Approved | 115 min | Drama, History, Romance
At the dawn of supersonic flight in the 1950s, a group of Edwards Air Force Base experimental aircraft test pilots push themselves to the limit.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: William Holden, Lloyd Nolan, Virginia Leith, Charles McGraw
Votes: 736
9. Dread (2009)
R | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Three college students set out to document what other people dread the most. However, one of the three turns out to secretly be a sadistic psychopath who uses this knowledge to gruesomely torture the subjects.
Director: Anthony DiBlasi | Stars: Jackson Rathbone, Hanne Steen, Laura Donnelly, Jonathan Readwin
Votes: 12,995
10. Gulaal (2009)
Not Rated | 140 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A law student witnesses deception, homicide, and crime after being elected as General Secretary of his college.
Director: Anurag Kashyap | Stars: Kay Kay Menon, Raj Singh Chaudhary, Raja Chaudhary, Jesse Randhawa
Votes: 15,949
11. Ex Drummer (2007)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.
Director: Koen Mortier | Stars: Dries Vanhegen, Norman Baert, Gunter Lamoot, Sam Louwyck
Votes: 11,005
12. Brute Force (1947)
Passed | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo
Votes: 11,599
13. Gaslight (1940)
Not Rated | 84 min | Mystery, Thriller
Twenty years after the murder of Alice Barlow, her house is finally occupied again. However, the husband from the couple who have moved in has a secret which he will do anything to keep hidden.
Director: Thorold Dickinson | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell
Votes: 5,315
14. The Confession (1970)
GP | 139 min | Drama, Thriller
A high-ranking official is forced to confess to high treason.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti, Michel Vitold
Votes: 4,835 | Gross: $0.33M
15. The Eleventh Commandment (1986)
R | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A young man driven to insanity by his corrupt uncle breaks out of a mental hospital, and proceeds to kill his way through in order to save his 9-year-old cousin from her corrupt family and avenge his father's killing.
Director: Paul Leder | Stars: Bernard White, Marilyn Hassett, Dick Sargent, Greg Mullavey
Votes: 316
16. Caged (I) (2021)
Not Rated | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
An African American male is imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement after being found guilty of murdering his wife, as he's haunted by internal demons and his dead wife, and pushed to the breaking point by an abusive female guard.
Director: Aaron Fjellman | Stars: Edi Gathegi, Melora Hardin, Angela Sarafyan, Tony Amendola
Votes: 583
17. Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh (1996 Video Game)
M | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Curtis Craig, a totally normal man begins to hear strange voices. Could it be that he is an insane killer..?
Director: Andy Hoyos | Stars: Paul Morgan Stetler, Monique Parent, Ragna Sigrun, Paul T. Mitri
Votes: 419
18. Frank Serpico (2017)
Unrated | 98 min | Documentary, Biography
In his own words, Frank Serpico tells the story of his one-man crusade for police reform in the NYPD during the early 1970s.
Director: Antonino D'Ambrosio | Stars: Frank Serpico, Stanislao Pugliese, Janet Panetta, John O'Connor
Votes: 390 | Gross: $0.01M
19. Eskapo (1995)
TV-PG | 114 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Serge Osmeña and Geny Lopez are wrongly accused of plotting to assassinate President Ferdinand Marcos.
Director: Chito S. Roño | Stars: Christopher De Leon, Richard Gomez, Dina Bonnevie, Ricky Davao
Votes: 52
20. Why? (1971)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
The surveyor Giuseppe Di Noi experiments the troubles of the Italian Justice System of the '70s while back in Italy for a vacation.
Director: Nanni Loy | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Elga Andersen, Lino Banfi, Andrea Aureli
Votes: 1,019
21. Arrive Before Daybreak (1978)
94 min | War
The story of political prisoners, detained in a jail before the start of the WWII, and their torture and attempts to escape, and join a partisan unit.
Director: Aleksandar Djordjevic | Stars: Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Rados Bajic, Zlata Numanagic, Cedomir Petrovic
Votes: 75
22. Est (2002– )
R | 340 min | Reality-TV
TV Game show where the contestants must live locked in a room for one month in the dark.
Stars: Alien Virtual, Old-Nick, John Waterhouse, Stuart Mansell
Votes: 15
23. Between Time and Space: E.S.T. (2024)
120 min | Biography, Sci-Fi
It is an experiment based on the "E.S.T." process and therapy. "E.S.T." is an experiment where someone is locked inside a room in complete obscurity for a month or longer in order to cure any ailment.
Director: Nick Peterson | Stars: Old-Nick, Jenia Emmanuelle, John Waterhouse, Jane D'Arbanville
24. Sinner's Saint (2012)
11 min | Short, Action, Adventure
In this Bruce Joel Rubin style Angel Heart (1987) story, A Soldier is tested by his inner demons and must decide who he wants to become.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: David Fichtenmayer, Chad Figurido, Alexander Raye Pimentel
Votes: 43
25. Vapauden varjot (2010 TV Movie)
54 min | Documentary
Director: Ari Lehikoinen | Stars: Martin Scheinin, Muhammad Saad Igbal Madni, Omar Deghayes, Amina Janjua
26.
Fawlty Towers (1975–1979)
Episode:
The Anniversary
(1979)
TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy
Basil plans a surprise anniversary party for Sybil but, thinking he's forgotten it again, she walks out just before the guests arrive.
Director: Bob Spiers | Stars: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth
Votes: 1,918