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1. The Departed (2006)
R | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg
Votes: 1,424,630 | Gross: $132.38M
2. Memento (2000)
R | 113 min | Mystery, Thriller
A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior
Votes: 1,324,955 | Gross: $25.54M
3. Brooklyn (2015)
PG-13 | 117 min | Drama, Romance
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Director: John Crowley | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 150,672 | Gross: $38.32M
4. Waves (I) (2019)
R | 135 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Traces the journey of a suburban family - led by a well-intentioned but domineering father - as they navigate love, forgiveness, and coming together in the aftermath of a loss.
Director: Trey Edward Shults | Stars: Taylor Russell, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Alexa Demie, Bill Wise
Votes: 30,895
5. Moon (2009)
R | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.
Director: Duncan Jones | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott, Rosie Shaw
Votes: 377,031 | Gross: $5.01M
6. Blue Jasmine (2013)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks like a million dollars but isn't bringing money, peace or love.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard, Sally Hawkins
Votes: 212,715 | Gross: $33.41M
7. Gypsy (2017)
TV-MA | 51 min | Drama, Thriller
Therapist Jean Holloway becomes too immersed in the lives of her patients.
Stars: Naomi Watts, Billy Crudup, Sophie Cookson, Karl Glusman
Votes: 18,756
8. Umma (2022)
PG-13 | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Amanda and her daughter live a quiet life on an American farm, but when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes haunted by the fear of turning into her own mother.
Director: Iris K. Shim | Stars: Sandra Oh, Fivel Stewart, Dermot Mulroney, Odeya Rush
Votes: 10,620
9. Gang Related (1997)
R | 111 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After murdering an undercover DEA agent, two corrupt cops scramble to cover up what they've done.
Director: Jim Kouf | Stars: Jim Belushi, Tupac Shakur, Lela Rochon, Dennis Quaid
Votes: 10,029 | Gross: $5.79M
10. Religulous (2008)
R | 101 min | Documentary, Comedy, War
Bill Maher's take on the current state of world religion.
Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Bill Maher, Tal Bachman, Jonathan Boulden, Steven Burg
Votes: 60,263 | Gross: $13.00M
11. The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)
R | 103 min | Drama
A daydreamer convinces his radio personality brother to help fund one of his get-rich-quick schemes.
Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Julia Anne Robinson
Votes: 6,090
12. Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017)
Unrated | 98 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars.
Director: Matt Tyrnauer | Stars: Scotty Bowers, William Mann, David Kuhn, Stephen Fry
Votes: 1,811 | Gross: $0.46M
13. Dummy (2002)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may thwart his new career and love life.
Director: Greg Pritikin | Stars: Adrien Brody, Milla Jovovich, Illeana Douglas, Vera Farmiga
Votes: 6,935 | Gross: $0.07M
14. Anesthesia (2015)
R | 90 min | Crime, Drama
Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.
Director: Tim Blake Nelson | Stars: Sam Waterston, Kristen Stewart, Corey Stoll, Gretchen Mol
Votes: 5,031 | Gross: $0.02M
15. The Well
Mystery, Thriller | Pre-production
An injured woman trapped in a deep well must overcome a manipulative stranger with keys to her dark past to save her daughter from a horrific ordeal.
Director: Misko Massanyi
16. The Spanish Gardener (1956)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama
Rather undiplomatic British diplomat Harrington Brande (Sir Michael Hordern) takes up his new post in Spain accompanied by his son Nicholas (Jon Whiteley). The posting is something of a ... See full summary »
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Michael Hordern, Cyril Cusack
Votes: 1,033
17. Hot Spell (1958)
Unrated | 86 min | Drama
A housewife is doing her best to keep her family together as it's slowly falling apart, a fact she's trying to ignore. Her cheating husband's birthday party is approaching and many lines will be crossed after that event.
Directors: Daniel Mann, George Cukor | Stars: Shirley Booth, Anthony Quinn, Shirley MacLaine, Earl Holliman
Votes: 596
18. Joe Gould's Secret (2000)
R | 104 min | Drama
Around 1940, The New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character, who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of twenty thousand conversations he's overheard.
Director: Stanley Tucci | Stars: Ian Holm, Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis, Sarah Hyland
Votes: 1,646 | Gross: $0.64M
19. Lookwell (1991 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The former star of a cancelled cop TV show solves crimes. Pilot episode for a TV series that was never picked up.
Director: E.W. Swackhamer | Stars: Adam West, Ron Frazier, Ann Weldon, Todd Field
Votes: 561
20. Girlhood (2003)
Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary, Crime
Documentary chronicling America's justice system. Follows two female inmates - victims of horrific violence and tragedy - who are serving time in a Maryland juvenile detention center.
Director: Liz Garbus
Votes: 612 | Gross: $0.06M
21. A Visitor from the Living (1999)
Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary
An interview with a WWII Red Cross official who wrote a glowing report on a Jewish ghetto-cum-death camp.
Director: Claude Lanzmann | Stars: Maurice Rossel, Claude Lanzmann
Votes: 280
22. The God Who Wasn't There (2005)
62 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Did Jesus exist? This film starts with that question, then goes on to examine Christianity as a whole.
Director: Brian Flemming | Stars: Sam Harris, Robert M. Price, Richard Carrier, Earl Doherty
Votes: 5,053
23. Artifact (2013)
Action, Adventure, Drama
Human's struggle to obtain ancient Artifacts that have been scattered throughout space.
Stars: Cesar D' La Torre, Rich Finley, Ksenia Valenti, Daniel Begus
Votes: 56
24. Puff the Magic Dragon in the Land of the Living Lies (1979 TV Movie)
30 min | Animation, Fantasy
Puff shows a girl named Sandy the truth about lies as they travel through The Land of Living Lies.
Directors: Charles Swenson, Fred Wolf | Stars: Burgess Meredith, Mischa Bond, Alan Barzman, Ike Eisenmann
Votes: 100
25. Puff and the Incredible Mr. Nobody (1982 TV Movie)
30 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
The magic dragon teaches a boy to believe in his own creative abilities.
Director: Fred Wolf | Stars: Burgess Meredith, David Mendenhall, Diana Dumpis, Joan Gerber
Votes: 100
26. Altered States of Plaine (2012)
88 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A young man on the run from a mysterious government agency is desperate to find the cure for a condition that causes him to wake up at random places around the world when he falls asleep.
Director: Nick Gaglia | Stars: George Gallagher, Kether Donohue, Michael G. Mathis, Donald Pritt
Votes: 213
27. Judas Goat (2014– )
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A mini-series delving into the darker side of urban myth - a world of monsters through the eyes of their servants.
Stars: Susanne Wuest, Guy Evans, Donald Morrison, Huld Martha
Votes: 57
28. Lapse (V) (2010)
75 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A woman wakes up one morning alone in the desert with no memory and blood on her hands. Reality and memory collide as she struggles to make sense of events.
Director: Marianne Hansen | Stars: Karolina Dryzner, Sirry Jons, Keith Roenke, Emmett J Scanlan
Votes: 11
29. The Parasomniac (2010)
78 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A man who suffers from somnambulism attempts to piece together clues in order to find out what happened to his missing roommate.
Director: George Lin | Stars: Gregory Doyle, Christopher DeStefano, Mariel Rosen, Michael Mooney
Votes: 43
30. Rakastunut rampa (1975)
67 min | Comedy, Drama
Krokelby in the 1920s. Sakris Kukkelman is a crippled, Nietzsche reading village idiot who believes himself to be a romantic hero.
Directors: Esko Favén, Tarja Laine | Stars: Vesa-Matti Loiri, Leena Uotila, Ritva Valkama, Heikki Nousiainen
Votes: 110
31. Don't Blink (III) (2023)
5 min | Short, Drama
Kelsey is clever but increasingly desperate: she needs to grift her late grandmother's money to save her own life, and she's running out of options.
Director: Don Starnes | Stars: Eric E. Johnston, Shaw Jones, Kailena Mai
32. Why I Faked Being a Hot Girl Online for Attention (2017 Video)
93 min | News
Stefan Molyneux talks to a straight man who pretends to be a woman in an online video game for attention; but now he wants to come clean to a male friend he has fooled for five years.
Stars: Stefan Molyneux, Mike M. DeMarco
33.
The Streets of San Francisco (1972–1977)
Episode:
Bitter Wine
(1972)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Stone oversteps his authority when he entrusts to a traditional Greek patriarch his ex-con son just released from San Quentin. When the son is implicated in a suspicious fire, Stone and Keller's investigation uncovers ugly family secrets.
Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Karl Malden, Michael Douglas, Nehemiah Persoff, Scott Marlowe
Votes: 186
34.
Artifact (2013)
Episode:
CruxEnigma
(2017)
Action, Adventure, Drama
In a Stroy by Allan Linder, a fallen Astronaut searches the unknown for a way home. What he finds will change the future of humanity forever.
Votes: 23
35.
Your Welcome (2017– )
Dr. Geoffrey Miller
(2022 Podcast Episode)
News, Talk-Show
Stars: Michael Malice, Geoffrey Miller
36.
Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode:
Battlefield Deceptions
TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary, History, War
From rubber tanks and camouflage to booby traps and tactical manoeuvers of deception, the role "trickery" plays on the modern battlefield.
Stars: Charlton Heston, James F. Dunnigan, Albert Nofi, Douglas Waller
37.
Understanding the Dark Side of Human Nature (2019)
Episode:
Varieties of Self-Deception
(2019)
Documentary
Star: Daniel Breyer
38.
The Michael Knowles Show (2017– )
Trans Mass Shooter Kills Christian Kids at School
(2023 Podcast Episode)
46 min | Talk-Show
39.
John Vervaeke (2013– )
Episode:
AI: The Coming Thresholds and the Path We Must Take | Internationally Acclaimed Cognitive Scientist
(2023)
Stars: John Vervaeke, Ryan Barton, Eric Foster
40.
Artifact (2013)
Episode:
First Contact (Pilot)
(2013)
Action, Adventure, Drama
An excavation team's Captain must save his crew from being consumed and driven mad by a recovered artifact.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Daniel Begus, Cesar D' La Torre, David Fichtenmayer, Rich Finley
Votes: 29
41.
Artifact (2013)
Episode:
Dissimulation
(2015)
Action, Adventure, Drama
A Captain searching for an Artifact on a desolate planet, exposes the truths of his mission.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel
Votes: 28
42.
Why Didn't They Laugh? (2018– )
Healthy Poison, England, the Never-Ending Flat Earth Riddle
(2019 Podcast Episode)
Comedy, News
Stars: Owen Benjamin, Amy Reinke Smith, Walter