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1. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (2019– )
TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A family is attacked by demons and only two members survive - Tanjiro and his sister Nezuko, who is turning into a demon slowly. Tanjiro sets out to become a demon slayer to avenge his family and cure his sister.
Stars: Natsuki Hanae, Zach Aguilar, Abby Trott, Akari Kitô
Votes: 148,897
2. The Batman (2022)
PG-13 | 176 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When a sadistic serial killer begins murdering key political figures in Gotham, Batman is forced to investigate the city's hidden corruption and question his family's involvement.
Director: Matt Reeves | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell
Votes: 789,252 | Gross: $369.35M
3. Joker (I) (2019)
R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Director: Todd Phillips | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy
Votes: 1,493,592 | Gross: $335.45M
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
PG-13 | 130 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Harry, Ron, and Hermione search for Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes in their effort to destroy the Dark Lord as the final battle rages on at Hogwarts.
Director: David Yates | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Michael Gambon
Votes: 950,033 | Gross: $381.01M
5. Batman (1989)
PG-13 | 126 min | Action, Adventure
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl
Votes: 404,798 | Gross: $251.19M
6. Mercury Rising (1998)
R | 111 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Shadowy elements in the NSA target a nine-year old autistic savant for death when he is able to decipher a top secret code.
Director: Harold Becker | Stars: Bruce Willis, Miko Hughes, Alec Baldwin, Chi McBride
Votes: 77,722 | Gross: $32.94M
7. Enemy at the Gates (2001)
R | 131 min | Action, Drama, War
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz
Votes: 277,916 | Gross: $51.40M
8. Threads (1984 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 112 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The effects of a nuclear holocaust on the working class city of Sheffield, England and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, David Brierly, Rita May
Votes: 20,203
9. The Harder They Fall (2021)
R | 139 min | Action, Drama, Western
When an outlaw discovers his enemy is being released from prison, he reunites his gang to seek revenge.
Director: Jeymes Samuel | Stars: Jonathan Majors, Zazie Beetz, RJ Cyler, Edi Gathegi
Votes: 71,328
10. The Specialist (1994)
R | 110 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A woman entices a bomb expert she's involved with into destroying the mafia that killed her family.
Director: Luis Llosa | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Rod Steiger
Votes: 69,858 | Gross: $57.36M
11. Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002)
PG-13 | 81 min | Action, Comedy
A rough-around-the-edges martial arts master seeks revenge for his parents' death.
Director: Steve Oedekerk | Stars: Steve Oedekerk, Fei Lung, Leo Lee, Ling-Ling Hsieh
Votes: 48,554 | Gross: $16.03M
12. Double Impact (1991)
R | 110 min | Action, Crime
Twin brothers are separated when their parents are murdered but 25 years later they re-unite in order to avenge their parents' death.
Director: Sheldon Lettich | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Geoffrey Lewis, Alonna Shaw, Corinna Everson
Votes: 44,110 | Gross: $30.10M
13. Dagon (2001)
R | 98 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A boating accident runs a young man and woman ashore in a decrepit Spanish fishing town which they discover is in the grips of an ancient sea god and its monstrous half human offspring.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Raquel Meroño, Macarena Gómez
Votes: 21,077
14. The Last Legion (2007)
PG-13 | 101 min | Action, Adventure, History
As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.
Director: Doug Lefler | Stars: Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Peter Mullan
Votes: 37,120 | Gross: $5.93M
15. Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
R | 104 min | Horror
A dysfunctional family moves into a new house, which proves to be satanic, resulting in the demonic possession of their teenage son.
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: James Olson, Burt Young, Rutanya Alda, Jack Magner
Votes: 12,879 | Gross: $12.53M
16. Wolves (2014)
R | 91 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
A boy is trying to find out about his family history and stumbles upon a town of lycans.
Director: David Hayter | Stars: Lucas Till, Stephen McHattie, John Pyper-Ferguson, Merritt Patterson
Votes: 10,461
17. Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
R | 79 min | Horror, Thriller
Little Billy witnesses his parents getting killed by Santa after being warned by his senile grandpa that Santa punishes those who are naughty. Now Billy is 18 and out of the orphanage, and he has just become Santa himself.
Director: Charles E. Sellier Jr. | Stars: Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Toni Nero, Robert Brian Wilson
Votes: 18,828 | Gross: $2.49M
18. Tenderness (2009)
R | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A policeman works to figure out whether a violent teen murdered his family.
Director: John Polson | Stars: Russell Crowe, Jon Foster, Sophie Traub, Laura Dern
Votes: 8,206
19. 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: 12,976
20. The Musketeer (2001)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Alexander Dumas' novel is updated with an eastern influence as D'Artagnan attempts to join the king's elite guards, the Royal Musketeers, and find the man who killed his parents.
Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Justin Chambers, Catherine Deneuve, Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea
Votes: 15,078 | Gross: $27.07M
21. Revoir Paris (2022)
105 min | Drama
Three months after surviving a terrorist attack in a bistro, Mia is still traumatized and unable to recall the events of that night. In an effort to move forward, she investigates her memories and retraces her steps.
Director: Alice Winocour | Stars: Virginie Efira, Benoît Magimel, Grégoire Colin, Maya Sansa
Votes: 3,187
22. Something Wicked (2014)
R | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
As a young couple embarks upon their wedding plans, gruesome secrets from their past collide with sinister forces of the present to ensure these newlyweds do not live.
Director: Darin Scott | Stars: Shantel VanSanten, Brittany Murphy, Julian Morris, James Patrick Stuart
Votes: 1,603
23. El Norte (1983)
R | 141 min | Adventure, Drama
After their family is killed in a government massacre, siblings Enrique and Rosa flee Guatemala and embark on a perilous journey to "El Norte": the United States.
Director: Gregory Nava | Stars: Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Alicia del Lago
Votes: 5,600
24. Message from Space (1978)
PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An embattled planet, which is on the edge of doom, sends an S.O.S. and an intergalactic team comes to its rescue.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Vic Morrow, Shin'ichi Chiba, Philip Casnoff, Peggy Lee Brennan
Votes: 1,651
25. In My Country (2004)
R | 105 min | Drama, Romance
A journalist and a poetess meet during the hearings of South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Samuel L. Jackson, Brendan Gleeson, Menzi Ngubane
Votes: 2,947 | Gross: $0.16M
26. White Slave (1985)
R | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
A young woman seeks vengeance and finds love when her parents are killed in the Amazon and she is taken prisoner by an indigenous tribe of headhunters.
Director: Mario Gariazzo | Stars: Elvire Audray, Will Gonzales, Dick Campbell, Andrea Coppola
Votes: 2,088
27. The Search (III) (2014)
135 min | Drama, War
A French woman who works for a non-governmental organization forms a special relationship with a lost young boy in war-torn Chechnya in 1999.
Director: Michel Hazanavicius | Stars: Bérénice Bejo, Annette Bening, Maksim Emelyanov, Abdul Khalim Mamutsiev
Votes: 2,999
28. Wild Thing (1987)
PG-13 | 92 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A child witnesses drug dealers murder his parents. He escapes and grows up wild in the city's slums. Years later he emerges to help the residents of the area who are being terrorized by street gangs and drug dealers.
Director: Max Reid | Stars: Robert Knepper, Kathleen Quinlan, Robert Davi, Maury Chaykin
Votes: 723
29. A Glitch in the Matrix (2021)
Not Rated | 108 min | Documentary
Documentary filmmaker Rodney Ascher tackles the question "are we living in a simulation?" with testimony, philosophical evidence and scientific explanation in his quest for the answer.
Director: Rodney Ascher | Stars: Nick Bostrom, Joshua Cooke, Erik Davis, Philip K. Dick
Votes: 2,186
30. Koyla (1997)
Not Rated | 166 min | Action, Drama, Musical
A village girl agrees to a marriage to a king she has never met after he sends her a photograph of himself. But the man in the photograph is not the king but his most loyal slave, the handsome but mute Shankar.
Director: Rakesh Roshan | Stars: Shah Rukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Amrish Puri, Ranjeet Bedi
Votes: 9,868
31. In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness (1994 TV Movie)
200 min | Crime, Drama
After a very messy divorce, a man starts suspecting his ex-wife and her new boyfriend of various crimes.
Director: Jeff Bleckner | Stars: Kelly McGillis, Harry Hamlin, Keith Carradine, Holland Taylor
Votes: 386
32. Andhaa Kaanoon (1983)
155 min | Action, Drama
Two siblings attempt to avenge the death of their parents. But the sister believes in the law while the brother believes in administering justice himself.
Director: Rama Rao Tatineni | Stars: Rajinikanth, Hema Malini, Reena Roy, Amitabh Bachchan
Votes: 814
33. El Paso (1949)
Approved | 103 min | Western
In El Paso, lawyer and ex-Confederate captain Clay Fletcher forms a vigilante group to bring law and order to a town where the judge is a drunk, the sheriff is corrupt and the town is run by a crooked landowner.
Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: John Payne, Gail Russell, Sterling Hayden, George 'Gabby' Hayes
Votes: 461
34. Alison's Birthday (1981)
99 min | Horror, Mystery
A young girl is subjected to a reign of terror so that her soul can be transferred to the body of an old crone.
Director: Ian Coughlan | Stars: Joanne Samuel, Lou Brown, Bunney Brooke, John Bluthal
Votes: 1,256
35. Isabella, Duchess of the Devils (1969)
79 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An Alsacian Baron massacres the family of a French Duke. Isabella, the Duke's baby child, escapes the massacre, is raised by gypsies and comes back twenty years later to exact revenge.
Director: Bruno Corbucci | Stars: Brigitte Skay, Mimmo Palmara, Fred Williams, Elina De Witt
Votes: 174
36. Cold Prey III (2010)
95 min | Horror, Thriller
Takes place in the 80's where a group of teenagers go to visit an abandoned hotel, only to find themselves hunted by a psychotic killer through the Norwegian woods.
Director: Mikkel Brænne Sandemose | Stars: Ida Marie Bakkerud, Julie Rusti, Kim Falck, Pål Stokka
Votes: 4,583
37. Hogi Pyaar Ki Jeet (1999)
Not Rated | 180 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Surjit finds out that his sister is in love with Manjit Singh, the younger brother of Thakur Gajendra Singh. When his sister gets pregnant, Surjit goes to Thakur's house in order to get ... See full summary »
Director: P. Vasu | Stars: Ajay Devgn, Shabana Raza, Arshad Warsi, Prithvi Vazir
Votes: 629
38. Cupid (1997)
R | 95 min | Horror, Thriller
A brother and sister with a past incestuous relationship have a current murderous relationship. He murders the women who reject him and she murders the women who get too close to him.
Director: Doug Campbell | Stars: Zach Galligan, Ashley Laurence, Mary Crosby, Joseph Kell
Votes: 417
39. Zanjeer (1973)
Not Rated | 145 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A tough and honest police officer clashes with a crime boss who, unbeknownst to him, happens to be his parents' murderer.
Director: Prakash Mehra | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Pran Sikand, Om Prakash
Votes: 4,199
40. War Witch (2012)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, War
Somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Komona, a 14-year-old girl, tells her unborn child growing inside her the story of her life since she has been at war. Everything started when she was abducted by the rebel army at the age of 12.
Director: Kim Nguyen | Stars: Rachel Mwanza, Alain Lino Mic Eli Bastien, Serge Kanyinda, Ralph Prosper
Votes: 7,569 | Gross: $0.07M
41. The History of Time Travel (2014)
PG-13 | 72 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A fictional documentary about the creation of the worlds first time machine, the men who created it, and the unintended ramifications it has on world events.
Director: Ricky Kennedy | Stars: Stephen Adami, Krista Ales, Valerie Black, Ryan Blackburn
Votes: 1,651
42. Deadly Dreams (1988)
R | 79 min | Horror, Thriller
From the director of the highly acclaimed "Body Chemistry," comes a frightening excursion into terror. Alex is caught in a web of distrust between his brother, his best friend, a beautiful ... See full summary »
Director: Kristine Peterson | Stars: Mitchell Anderson, Juliette Cummins, Xander Berkeley, Thom Babbes
Votes: 507
43. Vengeance (1976)
R | 94 min | Drama, Western
Tom's parents are killed by Mexicans after their leader (Van Cleef) rapes his mother as he watched. He sets out to exact revenge and is ultimately helped by a successful gold prospector who has been robbed by the same group.
Director: Joseph Manduke | Stars: Lee Van Cleef, Jim Brown, John Marley, Glynnis O'Connor
Votes: 657
44. Mad Foxes (1981)
Not Rated | 80 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
A man seeks revenge after a biker gang murders his family.
Director: Paul Grau | Stars: José Gras, Laura Premica, Andrea Albani, Peter Saunders
Votes: 1,024
45. Mudhalvan (1999)
Not Rated | 169 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A man accepts a challenge to act as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for one day only, and makes such a success of it that soon he is embroiled in political intrigue.
Director: S. Shankar | Stars: Arjun Sarja, Manisha Koirala, Raghuvaran, Vadivelu
Votes: 8,452
46. Procession of Memories (1973)
164 min | Action, Drama, Musical
Three brothers are separated after their parents' murder. Years later, their only hope of avenging their parents and reuniting as a family lies in the song they learned as children.
Director: Nasir Hussain | Stars: Dharmendra, Zeenat Aman, Vijay Arora, Imtiaz Khan
Votes: 2,159
47. Raven Hawk (1995 TV Movie)
R | 88 min | Action, Drama
A Native-American woman, who was framed for the murders of her parents years before, returns to her reservation to seek revenge.
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Rachel McLish, John Enos III, Ed Lauter, Matt Clark
Votes: 908
48. Parvarish (1977)
Not Rated | 162 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A policeman adopts the son of a bandit. A misunderstanding leads the officer's own biological son to believe he is the bandit's son and he takes up a secret life of crime; meanwhile, the adopted son becomes an officer of the law.
Director: Manmohan Desai | Stars: Shammi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Neetu Singh
Votes: 1,066
49. Return of the Gunfighter (1966)
Not Rated | 98 min | Romance, Western
An aging gunman and a wounded drifter come upon a young Mexican girl, and agree to help her avenge the death of her father, who was murdered for their land.
Director: James Neilson | Stars: Robert Taylor, Chad Everett, Ana Martín, Mort Mills
Votes: 711
50. Investiture of the Gods (2019)
45 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Based on the Chinese classic "The Legend of Deification." It tells a story set in Late Shang Dynasty and shows how people of the age fight against the tyranny of King Zhou and prevent the world from its destruction.
Stars: Jin Luo, Allen Deng, Likun Wang
Votes: 59