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1. Labyrinth (1986)
PG | 101 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Sixteen-year-old Sarah must solve a labyrinth to rescue her baby brother when he is taken by the Goblin King.
Director: Jim Henson | Stars: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud, Shelley Thompson
Votes: 149,913 | Gross: $12.73M
2. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
R | 105 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of three people; the culprit is legendary apparition The Headless Horseman.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon
Votes: 384,388 | Gross: $101.07M
3. Top Secret! (1984)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
An American rock and roll singer is invited to a cultural festival in East Germany in order to distract from a plot to destroy NATO submarines, but he accidentally becomes involved in a resistance plot to rescue an imprisoned scientist.
Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker | Stars: Val Kilmer, Omar Sharif, Jeremy Kemp, Warren Clarke
Votes: 73,213 | Gross: $20.50M
4. Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
PG | 130 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A small-time magician is swept away to an enchanted land and is forced into a power struggle between three witches.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz, Mila Kunis
Votes: 214,403 | Gross: $234.91M
5. The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
PG | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin, while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams
Votes: 113,206 | Gross: $20.97M
6. Murder by Death (1976)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.
Director: Robert Moore | Stars: Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Eileen Brennan
Votes: 41,748
7. Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up, she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller, Catherine Hicks
Votes: 40,901 | Gross: $41.38M
8. Temple Grandin (2010 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 107 min | Biography, Drama
A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of the top scientists in the humane livestock handling industry.
Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Claire Danes, Julia Ormond, David Strathairn, Catherine O'Hara
Votes: 32,626
9. Bad Education (2004)
NC-17 | 106 min | Crime, Drama
An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Javier Cámara, Daniel Giménez Cacho
Votes: 63,482 | Gross: $5.21M
10. Lord of Illusions (1995)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A private detective gets more than he bargains for when he encounters Philip Swan, a performer whose amazing illusions captivate the world, but they are not really what everyone thinks.
Director: Clive Barker | Stars: Scott Bakula, Kevin J. O'Connor, J. Trevor Edmond, Daniel von Bargen
Votes: 19,307 | Gross: $13.29M
11. OtherLife (2017)
TV-MA | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After inventing a drug that induces time-compressed virtual realities, young Ren grapples with partner Sam over how to use their powerful creation.
Director: Ben C. Lucas | Stars: Jessica De Gouw, Liam Graham, Fiona Press, Adriane Daff
Votes: 16,754
12. Dave Made a Maze (2017)
Not Rated | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Dave, an artist who has yet to complete anything significant in his career, builds a fort in his living room out of pure frustration, only to wind up trapped by the fantastical pitfalls, booby traps, and critters of his own creation.
Director: Bill Watterson | Stars: Meera Rohit Kumbhani, Nick Thune, Adam Busch, James Urbaniak
Votes: 9,114 | Gross: $0.03M
13. Crusade (1999)
TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Set right after the events of Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (1999), a team of soldiers and scientists led by Capt. Matthew Gideon have five years to find a cure for an alien plague decimating Earth.
Stars: Gary Cole, Tracy Scoggins, Daniel Dae Kim, David Allen Brooks
Votes: 5,457
14. Spiral (1998)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A young pathologist seeks answers to the mysterious death of a friend and soon comes into contact with the same cursed videotape that caused the death of the friend's wife and son, which is haunted by the curse of Sadako, a relentless spirit.
Director: Jôji Iida | Stars: Kôichi Satô, Miki Nakatani, Hinako Saeki, Shingo Tsurumi
Votes: 3,987
15. When a Stranger Calls Back (1993 TV Movie)
R | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young babysitter, all alone in the house with two children asleep above, is bothered by a stranger. Unfortunately, the phone's dead...
Director: Fred Walton | Stars: Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Jill Schoelen, Gene Lythgow
Votes: 4,140
16. The Desert of the Tartars (1976)
PG | 140 min | Drama, History, War
Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.
Director: Valerio Zurlini | Stars: Jacques Perrin, Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemma, Helmut Griem
Votes: 2,637
17. Anamorph (2007)
R | 103 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing images on a single canvas.
Director: Henry Miller | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman, Don Harvey, James Rebhorn
Votes: 9,790 | Gross: $0.01M
18. Brain Games (2011–2020)
TV-G | 60 min | Documentary, Comedy, Game-Show
An examination of the nature of human perception and how it can be fooled.
Stars: Jason Silva, Bert Thomas Morris, Apollo Robbins, Eric Leclerc
Votes: 3,541
19. Goto: Island of Love (1969)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
On an isolated island ruled by a dictator, a petty thief rises through the ranks, becoming fly-catcher, dog-keeper, and boot polisher. Temptations arise, putting the islanders' fate in jeopardy and threatening to change the island forever.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Ligia Branice, Jean-Pierre Andréani, Ginette Leclerc
Votes: 977
20. Woman in Chains (1968)
R | 106 min | Drama
Stanislas Hassler blazes the development of modern art in his gallery, packed with works of surprising shapes, colours and textures, and where exhibitions turn into media events. Gilbert ... See full summary »
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Laurent Terzieff, Elisabeth Wiener, Bernard Fresson, Dany Carrel
Votes: 1,736
21. Flat Earth: The Biggest Lie of All (2015 Video)
90 min | Documentary
What if you've been told the biggest whopper of all time? A lie that has rendered you as nothing more than an insignificant microbe that evolved by accident on the surface of an ... See full summary »
Stars: Dave Murphy, Luca Parmitano, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong
Votes: 78
22. Superliminal (2019 Video Game)
E | Adventure
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you explore a surreal dream world and solve impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
Director: Albert Shih | Star: Max Howarth
Votes: 597
23. De zee die denkt (2000)
100 min | Adventure, Biography, Comedy
Incredible optical illusions in a story in a story in a story helps the surprised viewer finally to find out that he has been watching himself all along.
Director: Gert de Graaff | Stars: Bart Klever, Devika Strooker, Rick de Leeuw, Don Duyns
Votes: 566
24. Ilusiones Ópticas (2009)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Cristián Jiménez | Stars: Ivan Alvarez de Araya, Gregory Cohen, Eduardo Paxeco, Paola Lattus
Votes: 282
25. El arte de la luz y la sombra (2023)
Documentary, Animation, History
Animated documentary that tells the fascinating and unknown origins of cinema and audiovisuals from prehistoric times to the beginning of the 20th century.
Director: Miguel Herrero Herrero | Stars: Gonzalo Albiñana, Tsvetelina Lyubenova Avramova, Marc Azéma, Jordi S. Bonet
26. Optillus (2023)
27 min | Short, Crime, Drama
With her pioneering work on Optical Illusions, a police consultant probes into the unconscious of her subjects to help her solve cases.
Director: John Babu | Stars: Bryna Weiss, Jeffrey Carl, Jessica D'angelo, Debashish Dash
27. Free Color (2020)
70 min | Documentary
Carlos Cruz-Diez is one of the most prominent and influential Kinetic-Optic artists of our times. At 94 years of age, Cruz-Diez pursues an avant-garde challenge: to free color from form. ... See full summary »
Director: Alberto Arvelo | Stars: Ana Asenjo, Seamus Blackley, Liu Bolin, Jonathan Cohen
Votes: 42
28. Magic Bricks (1908)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Fantasy
Experimental color film that shows a magician and his assistant making objects and people appear and disappear. Then they stack up some blocks and a moving picture of a little girl appears on them.
Director: Segundo de Chomón
Votes: 372
29. Tréfa (2009)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
It is 1912 and war looms on the horizon. The school year begins in a boarding school run by priests. Zoltán's father, is one of the masters and struggling with questions that challenge ... See full summary »
Director: Péter Gárdos | Stars: Lóránd Váta, Tamás Lengyel, Mihály Kovács, Zsolt Kovács
Votes: 174
30. 3 Verses (2016)
13 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
A girl reaches a psychic looking for help after a ghost besieges her home.
Director: Antonio Yee | Stars: Laura Mariscal, Edvan Galván, Daniela López, Dayhana García
Votes: 93
31. A Mãe de Sangue (2019)
6 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
In the last moments before childbirth, a mother sees moments of her life in a hypnotic visual journey where every image has two simultaneous meanings.
Director: Vier Nev
Votes: 60
32. Gateways to the Mind (1958 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary, Animation
The film presents how the human body recognizes and becomes aware of its surroundings. The various information pathways to the brain such as sight, sound, smell, taste and touch are ... See full summary »
Directors: Owen Crump, Chuck Jones | Stars: Frank Baxter, Hadley Cantrell, Wilder Penfield, Billy Barty
Votes: 38
33. Fetch! (2002)
Not Rated | 5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A man plays fetch with his dog, only to have both him and his dog mired in a series of optical illusions.
Director: Nina Paley
Votes: 82
34. HyperLightness ad absurdum (2012)
26 min | Animation, Short
Sample of Dialogue Poem Colour is the eyes of Faith, Ideal forms Faith, Colour encodes Faith, Ideal images of Faith's symbols.
Director: Margarida Sardinha | Star: Margarida Sardinha
35. OK Go: The Writing's on the Wall (2014 Music Video)
4 min | Music
Directors: Aaron Duffy, Damian Kulash, Bob Partington | Star: OK Go
Votes: 43
36. Andrus: The Man, the Mind & the Magic (2008)
78 min | Documentary, Biography, Family
To some of the greatest performing magicians alive today, Jerry Andrus is the name of a legend. Renowned as one of the best and most influential "close-up magic" performers of our time, ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Neary | Stars: Jerry Andrus, John Dearing, Andre Kole, Ray Hyman
37. Augenspiegeleien: Ein Spiel für Scharfsichtige (1985 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
'Optical Illusions: A Game for Perspicaciousness' observes how optical illusions are created and why you fall for them.
Director: Viktoria von Flemming | Star: Douglas Welbat
38. Jain: Come (2015 Music Video)
3 min | Music
Official music video for "Come" by Jain.
Directors: Lionel Hirlé, Gregory Ohrel | Star: Jain
Votes: 32
39. Reptiloid (2013)
PG-13 | 29 min | Short, Horror, Sci-Fi
A giant, Komodo dragon like lizard is hunting a police officer in the middle of a forest.
Director: Marin Mandir | Stars: Marin Mandir, Goran Kramaric, Goran Dujmic, Danijel Galic
Votes: 56
40. Marvels of Motion, Issue C (1925)
Documentary, Short, Comedy
The patented Fleischer-Novagraph process provides unique images in slow motion, reverse motion, and freeze-frame. Subjects include athletics, dancing, dogs, cows, and the card tricks of Harry Houdini.
Star: Harry Houdini
42. The Great Surprise (1983)
86 min | Adventure, Comedy
Director: Yen-Ping Chu | Stars: Brigitte Lin, Sylvia Chang, Kuan-Chen Hu, Hsueh-Fen Peng
Votes: 11
44. Éric Antoine: Magic Délirium (2015 Video)
102 min | Documentary, Comedy
Director: Emmanuel Carriau | Stars: Éric Antoine, Calista Sinclair
Votes: 8
45. Magical Powers (1936)
7 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Director: Douglas F. Maxted | Stars: Jeff Sabine, Doug Rosenthal, Brian Maxted
46. Chikara: Tag World Grand Prix 2005, Night 1 (2005 Video)
194 min | Action, Comedy, Sport
Stars: Davey Andrews, Doug Becker, Billy Ken Kid, Matt Bomboy
47. Horizon Diner (2008)
3 min | Animation, Short
A lively exploration of altered reality through altered perceptions. Both contemplative and humorous, 'Horizon Diner' imagines a world in which the laws of optics and time are out of control.
Director: Joseph Crockett
Votes: 21
48. Sens Vr (2016 Video Game)
Approved | 30 min | Animation, Short, Action
SENS VR is the first virtual reality game inspired by a graphic novel. You play a man lost in a maze of strange laws. What is he looking for? Where are you going? To complete this ... See full summary »
Directors: Charles Ayats, Armand Lemarchand
50.
Chiller (1995– )
Episode:
The Man Who Didn't Believe in Ghosts
(1995)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Richard Cramer, a professional de-bunker of the paranormal, moves into Windwhistle Hall with his family, only to they find themselves involved in a series of unexplained events and ... See full summary »
Director: Bob Mahoney | Stars: Peter Egan, Mel Martin, Miles Anderson, Tobias Saunders
Votes: 95