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1. Gummo (1997)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
Lonely residents of a tornado-stricken Ohio town wander the deserted landscape trying to fulfill their boring, nihilistic lives.
Director: Harmony Korine | Stars: Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell, Lara Tosh, Jacob Reynolds
Votes: 38,312 | Gross: $0.02M
2. Adventureland (2009)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
Director: Greg Mottola | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Martin Starr
Votes: 169,367 | Gross: $16.03M
3. Mother (2009)
R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A mother desperately searches for the killer who framed her son for a girl's horrific murder.
Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Kim Hye-ja, Won Bin, Jin Goo, Yun Je-mun
Votes: 71,781 | Gross: $0.55M
4. Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
Not Rated | 114 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Bubby has spent thirty years trapped in the same small room, tricked by his mother. One day, he manages to escape and, deranged and naive in equal measures, his adventure into a modern and nihilistic life begins.
Director: Rolf de Heer | Stars: Nicholas Hope, Claire Benito, Ralph Cotterill, Syd Brisbane
Votes: 15,046
5. Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Police inspector Carl Mørck is put in charge of a department of cold cases, joined only by his assistant Assad. They dig into a case about a missing woman.
Director: Mikkel Nørgaard | Stars: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Per Scheel Krüger, Troels Lyby, Øyvind B. Fabricius Holm
Votes: 33,012
6. Prozac Nation (2001)
R | 95 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A young woman struggles with depression during her first year at Harvard.
Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg | Stars: Christina Ricci, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jessica Lange, Anne Heche
Votes: 19,017
7. Tideland (2005)
R | 120 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Tilly, Jodelle Ferland, Janet McTeer
Votes: 34,706 | Gross: $0.07M
8. The Lookout (2007)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.
Director: Scott Frank | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher
Votes: 60,580 | Gross: $4.60M
9. A Long Way Down (2014)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
Four people meet on New Year's Eve, and form a surrogate family to help one another with the difficulties of their lives.
Director: Pascal Chaumeil | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots, Aaron Paul
Votes: 34,657 | Gross: $0.01M
10. The Evil Within (I) (2017)
Not Rated | 98 min | Horror
A lonely, mentally handicapped boy befriends his reflection in an antique mirror. This demonic creature orders him to go on a murderous rampage to kill the people he loves most.
Director: Andrew Getty | Stars: Sean Patrick Flanery, Dina Meyer, Frederick Koehler, Michael Berryman
Votes: 3,944
11. Defendor (2009)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Arthur Poppington, a regular man who adopts a superhero persona, known as "Defendor", combs the city streets at night, in search of his archenemy, Captain Industry.
Director: Peter Stebbings | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Kat Dennings, Sandra Oh, Elias Koteas
Votes: 37,539 | Gross: $0.04M
12. Amen. (2002)
Not Rated | 132 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy
Votes: 14,983 | Gross: $0.27M
13. Meantime (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
When one brother gets a job from their wealthy aunt, the other becomes increasingly jealous.
Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Marion Bailey, Tim Roth, Phil Daniels, Pam Ferris
Votes: 4,797
14. Riding the Bus with My Sister (2005 TV Movie)
PG | 97 min | Drama
After their father's death, a woman spends time with her developmentally-disabled sister.
Director: Anjelica Huston | Stars: Rosie O'Donnell, Andie MacDowell, Richard T. Jones, D.W. Moffett
Votes: 1,314
15. The Secret Agent (1996)
R | 95 min | Drama, Thriller
Verloc lives in London 1886 with a pretty wife and her retarded brother. He's an agent for the Russian embassy. A new ambassador wants more from him than in the past years - something with a bomb. Verloc also informs the police.
Director: Christopher Hampton | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette, Gérard Depardieu, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 2,562 | Gross: $0.11M
16. No Way Home (1996)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A paroled murderer returns to the Staten Island home of his youth, where a poignant friendship blossoms with the restrained wife of his temperamental-- and jealous-- brother.
Director: Buddy Giovinazzo | Stars: Tim Roth, Deborah Kara Unger, James Russo, Joseph Ragno
Votes: 1,750
17. Kill Buljo: The Movie (2007)
R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When a likable hillbilly sees his fiance, friends and family ruthlessly gunned down at his engagement party, he becomes determined to get revenge - as soon as he wakes up from his coma.
Director: Tommy Wirkola | Stars: Stig Frode Henriksen, Tommy Wirkola, Linda Øverlie Nilsen, Natasha Angel Dahle
Votes: 4,187
18. Fear and Trembling (2003)
Unrated | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
A Belgian woman looks back on her year at a Japanese corporation in Tokyo in 1990. She is Amélie, born in Japan, living there until age 5. After college graduation, she returns with a ... See full summary »
Director: Alain Corneau | Stars: Sylvie Testud, Kaori Tsuji, Tarô Suwa, Bison Katayama
Votes: 4,814
19. Li'l Quinquin (2014)
Not Rated | 206 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A murder mystery that opens with the discovery of human body parts stuffed inside a cow on the outskirts of a small channel town in northern France.
Stars: Alane Delhaye, Lucy Caron, Bernard Pruvost, Philippe Jore
Votes: 3,097
20. Shower (1999)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
A young wealthy businessman's icy attitude toward his working-class background is about to thaw as he is forced to reconnect with his elderly father and mentally challenged younger brother, who together run a public bathhouse.
Director: Yang Zhang | Stars: Jiayi Du, Zheng Fang, Bing He, Wu Jiang
Votes: 4,227 | Gross: $1.15M
21. Ahaan (2019)
81 min | Comedy, Drama
Jilted by his wife, a man with OCD finds eye opening common ground and camaraderie with his neighbor, a young man with Down Syndrome.
Director: Nikhil Pherwani | Stars: Arif Zakaria, Niharika Singh, Abuli Mamaji, Rajit Kapoor
Votes: 382
22. Barjo (1992)
85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Barjo (nutcase, crap artist), the narrator, is an obsessive simpleton who fills his notebook with verbatim dialog, observed trivia, and oddball speculation on human behavior and the end of ... See full summary »
Director: Jérôme Boivin | Stars: Richard Bohringer, Anne Brochet, Hippolyte Girardot, Consuelo De Haviland
Votes: 320
23. Moonlight in Tokyo (2005)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
"Swan Lake," "The Ugly Duckling," magical realism, and two Chinese men in Tokyo. Jun is mildly mentally disabled, in his late 20s, living with his siblings after his mother has died. ... See full summary »
Directors: Felix Chong, Alan Mak | Stars: Leon Lai, Chapman To, Kuei-Mei Yang, Michelle Ye
Votes: 208
24. Andy's Rainbow (2016)
115 min | Drama, Romance
While doing community service at a special needs home, a rebellious teenage girl develops an unlikely friendship with a young mentally handicapped man who lives there.
Director: Adam Dufour | Stars: Shelby Taylor Mullins, Jacob Dufour, Victoria Jackson, Tim Perez-Ross
Votes: 264
25. Special Needs (2006)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy
A flamboyant TV producer and his bully sidekicks are on a quest to produce a reality TV show featuring physically and mentally disabled contestants. No prisoners are taken in this ... See full summary »
Director: Isaak James | Stars: Isaak James, Eva James, Michael C. Kricfalusi, Jared Morgenstern
Votes: 69
26. West 47th Street (2001)
TV-14 | 104 min | Documentary, Drama
WEST 47th STREET is a feature-length theatrical documentary film. It follows the lives of four people with serious mental illness, over three years. The film provides an unprecedented ... See full summary »
Directors: Bill Lichtenstein, June Peoples | Stars: Fitzroy Fredericks, Tex Gordon, Frances Olivero, Zeinab Wali
Votes: 34
27. Uitgevlochten (2011)
6 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Short film about two bored young girls with big contrasts to each other, who are philosophizing about dreaming and happiness.
Director: Mick van Herk | Stars: Lisa Zweerman, Emma van de Laar, Kiki van Herk, Koen Arts
28. The Missing Half (2003)
71 min | Drama
Claire and Pierre's marriage hits the skids after Claire, pregnant with twins, feels that one embryo is crushing the other and decides to abort half the pregnancy.
Director: Benoît Mariage | Stars: Dominique Baeyens, Philippe Grand'Henry, Laurent Kuenhen, Jan Decleir
Votes: 68
29. I nie opuszcze cie az do smierci (2000)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Maciej Adamek
Votes: 7
30. Two Little Ears (1980)
19 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Director: John Dick | Star: Marie Reynolds
31. Booked for Safekeeping (1960)
32 min | Short, Drama
A training film showing police officers how to deal with persons who are mentally ill.
Director: George C. Stoney | Star: James Daly
Votes: 114
32. Openly in the City (1974)
26 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Brian Bergin | Star: David Hursthouse
33.
Travelers (2016–2018)
Episode:
Travelers
(2016)
TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Travelers from our future return to our time to try to correct the terrible problems that face humanity in their own time.
Director: Nick Hurran | Stars: Eric McCormack, MacKenzie Porter, Nesta Cooper, Jared Abrahamson
Votes: 2,182