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1. Mother! (2017)
R | 121 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer
Votes: 249,272 | Gross: $17.80M
2. The Platform (2019)
TV-MA | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A vertical prison with one cell per level. Two people per cell. Only one food platform and two minutes per day to feed. An endless nightmare trapped in The Hole.
Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia | Stars: Ivan Massagué, Zorion Eguileor, Antonia San Juan, Emilio Buale
Votes: 271,413
3. Cube (1997)
R | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A group of strangers awaken to find themselves placed in a giant cube. Each one of them is gifted with a special skill and they must work together to escape an endless maze of deadly traps.
Director: Vincenzo Natali | Stars: Nicole de Boer, Maurice Dean Wint, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller
Votes: 247,382 | Gross: $0.50M
4. The Prisoner (1967–1968)
TV-PG | 1,010 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
After he resigns, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is actually a bizarre prison. He refuses to give his warders information while attempting to escape.
Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Angelo Muscat, Peter Swanwick, Peter Brace
Votes: 15,016
5. Naked Lunch (1991)
R | 115 min | Drama, Mystery
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands
Votes: 56,580 | Gross: $2.54M
6. Barton Fink (1991)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner
Votes: 128,826 | Gross: $6.15M
7. No Smoking (2007)
Not Rated | 128 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A heavily addicted smoker is unprepared for the true price he must pay when he asks a guru's help to kick the habit.
Director: Anurag Kashyap | Stars: John Abraham, Ayesha Takia, Paresh Rawal, Ranvir Shorey
Votes: 8,835
8. Infinity Chamber (2016)
103 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A man trapped in an automated prison must outsmart a computer in order to escape.
Director: Travis Milloy | Stars: Christopher Soren Kelly, Cassandra Clark, Cajardo Lindsey, Jesse D. Arrow
Votes: 11,724
9. The Trial (1993)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama, Thriller
Joseph K. (Kyle MacLachlan) awakens one morning to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told with what he is charged, and despite being "... See full summary »
Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Anthony Hopkins, Jason Robards, Juliet Stevenson
Votes: 2,526
10. The Castle (1997 TV Movie)
123 min | Drama, Mystery
When a land surveyor arrives at a small snowy village, local authorities refuse to allow him to advance to the nearby castle. Increasingly complicated bureaucratic obstacles arise.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Susanne Lothar, Nikolaus Paryla, André Eisermann
Votes: 3,566
11. The Circle (2000)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Maryiam Palvin Almani, Nargess Mamizadeh, Mojgan Faramarzi, Elham Saboktakin
Votes: 6,676 | Gross: $0.67M
12. Happy Day (1976)
100 min | Drama
The film depicts the penal experience of political prisoners exiled to a small Aegean island during the military junta and in particular one prisoner's refusal to submit.
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Zorz Sarri, Giorgos Moshidis, Stavros Kalaroglou, Nikos Bousdoukos
Votes: 295
13. Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (1983)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
An author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.
Director: Eldar Shengelaia | Stars: Ramaz Giorgobiani, Vasil Kakhniashvili, Teimuraz Chirgadze, Ivane Sakvarelidze
Votes: 2,233
14. The Skull (1965)
Not Rated | 83 min | Horror, Thriller
A collector comes into possession of the skull of the Marquis de Sade and learns it is possessed by an evil spirit.
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Peter Cushing, Patrick Wymark, Christopher Lee, Jill Bennett
Votes: 3,575
15. The Garden of Sinners: Paradox Spiral (2008)
TV-MA | 114 min | Animation, Action, Crime
A teenage demon hunter uses her mystical powers to investigate supernatural events.
Director: Takayuki Hirao | Stars: Maaya Sakamoto, Ken'ichi Suzumura, Takako Honda, Ayumi Fujimura
Votes: 2,098
16. Beyond the Seventh Door (1987)
83 min | Horror
After meeting up with his ex-lover Wendy, an ex-convict and thief named Boris gets persuaded to do one more heist. He is supposed to help Wendy rob her paraplegic, millionaire boss Lord ... See full summary »
Director: Bozidar D. Benedikt | Stars: Lazar Rockwood, Bonnie Beck, Gary Freedman, Ben Kerr
Votes: 355
17. Kingdom Come (2014)
Not Rated | 97 min | Horror
A group of strangers who wake up in what appears to be an abandoned building, unable to remember how they got there, find themselves haunted by strange visions and are forced to face all the wrongs they have done in their lives.
Director: Greg A. Sager | Stars: Ry Barrett, Camille Hollett-French, William Foley, Jason Martorino
Votes: 1,394
18. Strange Justice (1999 TV Movie)
R | 95 min | Drama
Fact-based story about the sexual harassment suit filed by Anita Hill during the appointment trials of Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court during the George Bush Presidential ... See full summary »
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson | Stars: Delroy Lindo, Mandy Patinkin, Regina Taylor, Paul Winfield
Votes: 189
19. Within (I) (2005)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
While traveling in Czech Republic, the American friends Brad, Christina, T.K. and Kelly find a map with the route to an ancient castle and they decide to visit the place. They force the ... See full summary »
Directors: John A. Curtis, Merlin Ward | Stars: Amy Perfect, Fiona Glascott, Derek Hamilton, Boyan Vukelic
Votes: 104
20. Viagem a Portugal (2011)
Not Rated | 75 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year in with her husband, also a doctor. She is approached by agents of the Immigration Services that take her to an interrogation ... See full summary »
Director: Sérgio Tréfaut | Stars: Maria de Medeiros, Isabel Ruth, Makena Diop, Rebeca Close
Votes: 174
21. A részleg (1995)
82 min | Drama
Gizella Weisz is an middle-aged office worker, who gets a promotion one day. Her boss told her that a new outpost is waiting for her. There she would be heading a new section. She travels ... See full summary »
Director: Péter Gothár | Stars: Mari Nagy, József Szarvas, Valentin Teodosiu, Misu Dimvale
Votes: 157
22. The Penal Colony (1970)
75 min | Drama
A journalist arrives on the Latin American island of Captiva, where a dictatorial President rules capriciously over a society that seems to consist mainly of males in military uniform, speaking a polyglot language.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Mónica Echeverría, Luis Alarcón, Aníbal Reyna, Nelson Villagra
Votes: 71
23. Plötzlich Türke (2016 TV Movie)
85 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Having a Turkish father and a German mother, a young man loses his German citizenship and has trouble to change this.
Director: Isabel Braak | Stars: Oliver Konietzny, Nikola Kastner, Nina Petri, Vedat Erincin
Votes: 101
24. Tabarana Kathe (1986)
179 min | Drama
Tabarana Kathe is the story of Tabara Shetty, a government servant. He serves the government till his retirement. But problems emerge after his retirement. Matters worsen when his wife and only companion falls sick.
Director: Girish Kasaravalli | Stars: Nalini Murthy, R. Nagesh, Charu Haasan, Vaishali Kasaravalli
Votes: 92
25. Zoetrope (1999)
18 min | Short, Horror
Director: Charlie Deaux | Stars: Nigel Bonfield, Michael Bradley, Robert Deacon
Votes: 290
26. Aaron Cohen's Debt (1999)
96 min | Crime, Drama
A multi-character, non-linear drama, following the events taking place during the last night in the life of Aaron Cohen.
Director: Amalia Margolin | Stars: Moshe Ivgy, Avital Abergel, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Uri Avrahami
Votes: 79
27. Joseph Kilian (1963)
38 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A man borrows a cat and when he goes back to return it, the place where he got it is no longer there. He begins his search.
Directors: Pavel Jurácek, Jan Schmidt | Stars: Karel Vasicek, Consuela Morávková, Ivan Ruzicka, Pavel Bartl
Votes: 531
28. The Silence Within (1996)
90 min | Drama
The defense minister of an unnamed European country is murdered. But there is a witness...
Directors: Michael Steiner, Pascal Walder | Stars: Pascal Ulli, Ingrid Sattes, Hans-Peter Ulli, Thomas Martin
Votes: 110
29. Derrière moi (2008)
87 min | Drama
The twenty-something Betty comes to a remote small town and strikes a friendship with the fourteen-year old local girl Lea, who is fascinated by her new friend's tales of partying and ... See full summary »
Director: Rafaël Ouellet | Stars: Carina Caputo, Charlotte Legault, Eliane Gagnon, Patrice Dubois
Votes: 154
30. The Rook (1994)
85 min | Drama, Mystery
Investigator John Abbott is looking into a murder. He will soon have to deal with his own failings and flaws, being deeply religious while surrounded by a world of grays.
Director: Eran Palatnik | Stars: Martin Donovan, John MacKay, Michael Finesilver, Fritz Fox
Votes: 36
31. Kill by Inches (1999)
Unrated | 80 min | Horror, Thriller, Fantasy
An anxious young tailor dominated by his father, a master of the craft, is eager to do well with his clients, but his inadequacy in measuring leaves him frustrated and humiliated. His ... See full summary »
Directors: Diane Doniol-Valcroze, Arthur K. Flam | Stars: Emmanuel Salinger, Myriam Cyr, John Marcus Powell, Christopher Zach
Votes: 429 | Gross: $0.00M
32. Wereld van stilstand (2005)
30 min | Short
Photofilm about a journalist of a local newspaper who feels his life has come to a standstill, until he discovers a conspiracy of mediocrity...
Director: Elbert van Strien | Stars: Fedja van Huêt, Han Kerckhoffs, Ellen de Man Lapidoth, Daan Schuurmans
Votes: 45
33. The Basement (2005 Video)
6 min | Short, Horror
Two men confront each other in a damp and filthy basement.
Director: Randall Kaplan | Stars: Isaac Scranton, Michael Whitney
Votes: 9
34. Screws (2007)
10 min | Short
A man living alone in his apartment, finds a screw on his rug.
Director: Can Evrenol | Star: Thanos Feloukas
Votes: 77
35. The Trap Door (1980)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama
A Nietzschian parable on the fate of innocence, THE TRAP DOOR follows the mishaps of Jeremy (John Ahearn) as he is fired by his boss (Jenny Holzer), gets laughed out of court by Judge Gary ... See full summary »
Directors: Beth B, Scott B | Stars: John Ahearn, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Mary Fogarty, Robin Harvey
Votes: 15
36. Chelovek, kotoryy molchal (2004)
85 min | Thriller
Director: Pavel Ruminov | Stars: Olga Bondareva, Mikhail Dementev, Mikhail Efimov, Natalya Gudkova
Votes: 36
37. Snakes and Ladders (1980 TV Movie)
30 min | Mystery
A man awakens to find himself immersed in a real-life scenario of a board game with an ever expanding cartography.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Pascal Bonitzer, Jean-Loup Rivière
Votes: 169
38. Le concierge (2017)
90 min | Drama, Mystery
A concierge shows a tiny apartment to many urban types: a divorcee, an immigrant artist, a widower, a youth striking out on her own. Each one feels an immediate attachment to the place, and... See full summary »
Director: Federico Hidalgo | Stars: Emilio Hidalgo, Federico Hidalgo, Claudio Caceres, Joseph Antaki
Votes: 10
39. Tea (2022)
17 min | Short, Drama
A new night shift employee sets off for the apparently simple task of making himself a cup of tea.
Director: Ayman Sousa | Stars: Omar Yousri, Moris Halim, Adel Mady, Andrew Emil
Votes: 6
40. A Very Dark Place (2006 Video)
13 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
What if there was a real reason to be afraid of the dark?
Director: David Sharp
41. Carls Schwester (2006)
26 min | Short
"Carls's Sister" is the Kafkaesque story of a young man seeking his long lost sister and being confronted with increasingly surreal obstacles. His compliable character starts to change when... See full summary »
Director: Franz Indra | Stars: Sascha Rotermund, Franziska Arndt, Leondina Herbek, Oliver Warsitz
42. Pratioci (2008)
16 min | Animation, Short
Director: Cejen Cernic | Stars: Damir Saban, Ursa Raukar, Luka Petrusic, Luka Juricic Rocco
Votes: 29
43. Harrow Island (2010)
12 min | Short, Drama, Horror
The story of photojournalist Simon Porter and the most torturous assignment of his life.
Director: Anja Marquardt | Stars: Michael Medeiros, Chad Hoeppner, Bo Corre, Gerry Bamman
Votes: 11
44. Il tempo dell'inizio (1974)
127 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A "symbolic" character traces the path of man in search of salvation in this world within his own ghosts and deformations.
Director: Luigi Di Gianni | Stars: Sven Lasta, Rada Rassimov, Jean Martin, Claudio Camaso
Votes: 51
45. Kill (2019)
Short, Drama, Mystery
A youth of our times is summoned by a evaluatory system far above his reach to make testimony of his right to speak, opinionate, and in other words, think of his own free will. The ... See full summary »
Director: Quentin Guobadia | Stars: Angelo Giannone, Samuel Shurtleff, Helen Laser, Trish Appello
46. Andererseits (2007)
26 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
A surreal trip through Edgar Denters life.
Director: Csongor Dobrotka | Stars: Anna Peschke, Marcel Reinhardt, Manuel Struffolino
Votes: 17
47. Flush Memoria (2015)
20 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
A film exploring a Kafkaesque setting where spy is played against spy.
Director: Matt Jamesley | Stars: Pamela Flanagan, Matt Jamesley, Lee Neville, Tony Sluka
48. Symptoms (2011)
9 min | Short, Horror, Thriller
The bounds of fiction and reality are obscured when you find yourself trapped in a nightmarish hospital room where paranoia lurks around every corner.
Director: Nathan Skillen | Stars: Tossaporn Kiravittaya, Prasert Pashdawong, Prasit Chaisen, Parichart Yonwilard
49. Kafka Pizza (2012)
6 min | Short
A pizza delivery guy falls victim to a child's prank on his first day on the job.
Director: Mark Kochanowicz | Stars: John P. Gelety, David J. Greenberg, Emilio Straface, Lysa Braccille
50. Horrorshow (1990)
5 min | Short, Horror
A traveler seeks refuge in a room only to find it still possessed by a demonic creature that has already killed the previous inhabitant.
Director: Paul Hart-Wilden | Stars: Gary Looke, Eden Ford, Rebecca Rosengard
Votes: 11