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51. Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
R | 118 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh pursue a former LAPD officer who uses his knowledge of police procedure and policies to steal and sell confiscated guns and ammunition to local street gangs.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo
Votes: 179,036 | Gross: $144.73M
52. Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
R | 127 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with deadly Chinese triads that are trying to free their former leaders out of prison and onto American soil.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo
Votes: 172,648 | Gross: $130.44M
53. Dead Man (1995)
R | 121 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange Native American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover, Lance Henriksen
Votes: 103,369 | Gross: $1.04M
54. Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)
R | 117 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from a life of crime to pursue his passion of rap music.
Directors: Jim Sheridan, Jim Sheridan | Stars: 50 Cent, Joy Bryant, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Omar Benson Miller
Votes: 50,322 | Gross: $30.98M
55. C.H.U.D. (1984)
R | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A bizarre series of sudden disappearances on the streets of New York City seems to point toward something unsavory living in the sewers.
Director: Douglas Cheek | Stars: John Heard, Daniel Stern, Christopher Curry, Kim Greist
Votes: 14,032 | Gross: $4.65M
56. Brewster's Millions (1985)
PG | 102 min | Comedy
A minor-league baseball player must spend $30 million in 30 days in order to inherit $300 million. However, he's not allowed to own any assets, destroy the money, gift it, give it to charity, or tell anyone about the deal.
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee, Stephen Collins
Votes: 43,262 | Gross: $38.80M
57. Repo Men (2010)
R | 111 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.
Director: Miguel Sapochnik | Stars: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber
Votes: 110,871 | Gross: $13.79M
58. The Hateful Eight - Extended Version (2019)
210 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
Bounty hunters and an outlaw stuck at a stagecoach stop during a storm encounter shady characters. Newly discovered footage shows the tense standoff unfolding inside while the storm rages outside.
Stars: Walton Goggins, Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Votes: 1,844
59. Mod Squad (1968–1973)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A trio of reformed juvenile delinquents work as undercover cops.
Stars: Michael Cole, Clarence Williams III, Peggy Lipton, Tige Andrews
Votes: 2,368
60. Outside the Wire (2021)
R | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
In the near future, a drone pilot sent into a war zone finds himself paired with a top-secret android officer on a mission to stop a nuclear attack.
Director: Mikael Håfström | Stars: Anthony Mackie, Damson Idris, Enzo Cilenti, Emily Beecham
Votes: 45,606
61. Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
R | 118 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Eddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitation phenomenon.
Director: Craig Brewer | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Keegan-Michael Key, Mike Epps, Craig Robinson
Votes: 65,114
62. Paid in Full (2002)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young man from Harlem, forced to cope with the 1980s drug scene, builds an illegal empire, only to have a crisis of conscience.
Director: Charles Stone III | Stars: Mekhi Phifer, Wood Harris, Chi McBride, Kevin Carroll
Votes: 14,306 | Gross: $3.04M
63. Iron Eagle (1986)
PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Thriller, War
A young pilot plans a rescue mission when his father, an Air Force Colonel, is shot down over enemy territory and captured.
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Jason Gedrick, David Suchet, Tim Thomerson
Votes: 16,042 | Gross: $24.16M
64. Fear City (1984)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and maimed by a psycho-killer. A conflicted ex-boxer-turned-talent-manager and his business partner and friend, who represent some of the girls, set out to find him before he strikes again.
Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia, Melanie Griffith
Votes: 4,361
65. Passenger 57 (1992)
R | 84 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
An airline security expert must take action when he finds himself trapped on a passenger jet when terrorists seize control of it.
Director: Kevin Hooks | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Bruce Payne, Tom Sizemore, Alex Datcher
Votes: 50,837 | Gross: $44.07M
66. Lock Up (1989)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama
With only six months left of his sentence, inmate Frank Leone is transferred from a minimum security prison to a maximum security prison by a vindictive warden.
Director: John Flynn | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, John Amos, Sonny Landham
Votes: 46,574 | Gross: $22.10M
67. House Party (1990)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Music
Kid decides to go to his friend Play's house party, but neither of them can predict what's in store for them on what could be the wildest night of their lives.
Director: Reginald Hudlin | Stars: Christopher Reid, Robin Harris, Christopher Martin, Martin Lawrence
Votes: 16,770 | Gross: $26.39M
68. Kenan & Kel (1996–2023)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Kenan and Kel: two best friends who live in Chicago are always dragged down by Kenan's get rich quick schemes while orange soda-loving buddy Kel is dragged along but tends to mess things up.
Stars: Kenan Thompson, Kel Mitchell, Ken Foree, Teal Marchande
Votes: 16,876
69. Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama
An ambitious married woman's temptation by a handsome billionaire leads to betrayal, recklessness, and forever alters the course of her life.
Director: Tyler Perry | Stars: Jurnee Smollett, Vanessa Williams, Brandy Norwood, Kim Kardashian
Votes: 12,450 | Gross: $51.98M
70. Doom Asylum (1987)
R | 77 min | Comedy, Horror
A horribly disfigured lawyer, wrongfully pronounced dead after a terrible car accident, is taken to an asylum for dissection, only to come back alive, kill everyone, and make the asylum his killing grounds.
Director: Richard Friedman | Stars: Patty Mullen, Ruth Collins, Kristin Davis, William Hay
Votes: 2,284
71. 13th (2016)
TV-MA | 100 min | Documentary, Crime, History
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
Director: Ava DuVernay | Stars: Melina Abdullah, Michelle Alexander, Cory Booker, Dolores Canales
Votes: 37,749
72. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
Director: Melvin Van Peebles | Stars: Melvin Van Peebles, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan, Simon Chuckster
Votes: 5,890 | Gross: $15.18M
73. Spellbinder (1988)
R | 99 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A young lawyer, after falling in love with a beautiful woman, finds that she has an extremely mysterious past.
Director: Janet Greek | Stars: Tim Daly, Kelly Preston, Rick Rossovich, Audra Lindley
Votes: 2,846 | Gross: $1.94M
74. Mope (2019)
TV-MA | 105 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The tragic true story of best friends Steve Driver and Tom Dong, two low end porn actors who sought fame but gained infamy.
Director: Lucas Heyne | Stars: Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Kelly Sry, Brian Huskey, Max Adler
Votes: 916
75. Cold Brook (2018)
100 min | Drama, Fantasy
Cold Brook is the story of two ordinary guys in a small town who embark on an extraordinary adventure. It's a story about coming home; something everyone, everywhere has an innate desire to do.
Director: William Fichtner | Stars: Robin Weigert, Harold Perrineau, William Fichtner, Mary Lynn Rajskub
Votes: 1,145
76. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy, Drama
A graduate student (Nicholson) copes with a recent breakup by conducting interviews with various men.
Director: John Krasinski | Stars: Julianne Nicholson, Ben Shenkman, Timothy Hutton, Michael Cerveris
Votes: 3,668 | Gross: $0.03M
77. Fam (2019)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Fed up with her father, a young woman moves in with her older half-sister and her fiancé.
Stars: Nina Dobrev, Tone Bell, Odessa A'zion, Sheryl Lee Ralph
Votes: 3,187
78. Silent Madness (1984)
R | 93 min | Horror, Thriller
A criminally insane man is accidentally released from a mental hospital. The staff tries to cover it up, but a young psychiatrist travels to the college town where he committed several murders to warn the locals and anticipate his arrival.
Director: Simon Nuchtern | Stars: Belinda Montgomery, Viveca Lindfors, Solly Marx, Sydney Lassick
Votes: 1,610
79. How High 2 (2019 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy
A pair of stoners embark on a pot-fueled adventure through Atlanta to find their missing weed.
Director: Bruce Leddy | Stars: Lil Yachty, D.C. Young Fly, Mike Epps, Alyssa Goss
Votes: 1,408
80. Knight Rider 2000 (1991 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 95 min | Action, Sci-Fi
In the future, guns are banned and criminals are frozen for the duration of their sentences. A recent spate of killings involving handguns brings Michael Knight back to fight for justice, ... See full summary »
Director: Alan J. Levi | Stars: David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, Susan Norman, Carmen Argenziano
Votes: 3,549
81. The Long Hot Summer (1985)
200 min | Drama, Romance
A loner arrives in a small town only to be condemned for the sins of his father.
Stars: Don Johnson, Jason Robards, Judith Ivey, Cybill Shepherd
Votes: 972
82. Native Son (2019)
TV-MA | 104 min | Drama
A young African-American living in Chicago enters into a seductive new world of money and power after he is hired as a chauffeur for an affluent businessman.
Director: Rashid Johnson | Stars: Ashton Sanders, Margaret Qualley, Nick Robinson, KiKi Layne
Votes: 2,816
83. Duffle Bag Boy (2024)
Action, Adventure, Crime
Lost and forgotten, a homeless veteran hitchhikes his way into becoming an outlaw and goes to war with the kingpin of a criminal empire.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Alexander Raye Pimentel, James Anthony Perez, ZsaNell Sims, Lavios Brown
Votes: 34
84. Most Likely to Die (2015)
Not Rated | 80 min | Horror
A group of former classmates gather for a pre-party at one of their homes the night before their 10-year high school reunion, and one by one, they are brutally slain in a manner befitting each's senior yearbook superlative.
Director: Anthony DiBlasi | Stars: Chad Addison, Jake Busey, Tess Christiansen, John Doe
Votes: 4,955
85. Love Field (1992)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
Devastated by President Kennedy's assassination, Dallas-based hairstylist Lurene Hallett boards a bus for the funeral in Washington D.C. where she meets a perplexing father and his daughter who greatly impact her journey.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan | Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, Dennis Haysbert, Stephanie McFadden, Brian Kerwin
Votes: 4,376 | Gross: $1.95M
86. American Warships (2012 Video)
TV-14 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When a US plane is taken down over seas by an unknown assailant, the army is sure it was North Korea and a new war is about to break out. Even worse, the true attacker is an alien armed force and only one old battleship can stop them.
Director: Thunder Levin | Stars: Mario Van Peebles, Carl Weathers, Johanna Watts, Nikki McCauley
Votes: 2,749
87. The Secret Path (1999 TV Movie)
Unrated | 120 min | Biography, Drama
A drama about a young, neglected white girl in the rural South who, with the help of an unlikely couple, finds the solace and nurturing needed to transform her downtrodden life.
Director: Bruce Pittman | Stars: Della Reese, Crystal Bernard, Madeline Zima, Yvonne Zima
Votes: 731
88. Pinky (1949)
Approved | 102 min | Drama
A light-skinned black woman falls in love with a white doctor, though he is unaware of her true race.
Directors: Elia Kazan, John Ford | Stars: Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan
Votes: 3,421 | Gross: $4.20M
89. Fight for Your Life (1977)
R | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A mean trashy exploitation picture about three convicts who escape from jail and hole up at the house of a black minister. There are a few nasty scenes where the minister's family is being ... See full summary »
Director: Robert A. Endelson | Stars: Robert Judd, Catherine Peppers, Lela Small, Yvonne Ross
Votes: 1,748
90. Dangerous Men (2005)
R | 80 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
After her fiancé is killed and she is almost sexually assaulted, a woman becomes an avenger of the night, seeking to kill all the dangerous men who would harm women. Meanwhile, her fiancé's... See full summary »
Director: Jahangir Salehi | Stars: Michael Gradilone, Roya Saghafy, Melody Wiggins, Michael Hurt
Votes: 713
91. The Deep End (2010)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama
Follows four young new lawyers who enter one of the most prestigious law firms in Los Angeles, Sterling Law.
Stars: Matt Long, Norbert Leo Butz, Ben Lawson, Tina Majorino
Votes: 798
92. Gravity (2010)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Drama
Black comedy about a group of eccentric individuals in an out-patient program for suicide survivors.
Stars: Krysten Ritter, Ivan Sergei, Eric Schaeffer, Rachel Hunter
Votes: 1,079
93. In This Our Life (1942)
Approved | 97 min | Drama
The day before her wedding, a pampered young woman absconds with her sister's husband. Her sister begins seeing the woman's former fiancé.
Directors: John Huston, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent, Dennis Morgan
Votes: 5,276
94. The Voice UK (2012– )
30 min | Documentary, Game-Show, Music
Aspiring singers perform auditions in front of four coaches who have their backs turned to them. Coaches who like the voices they hear turn around, and the contestant gets to decide which coach will mentor him/her.
Stars: Will.i.am, Tom Jones, Emma Willis, Ricky Wilson
Votes: 1,390
95. The Wedding (1998 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama, Romance
In 1950s Massachusetts, a wealthy black woman engaged to a poor white beatnik learns about her family history. The stories revolve around the racial and class complexities of interracial and class-based marriages.
Director: Charles Burnett | Stars: Halle Berry, Eric Thal, Lynn Whitfield, Carl Lumbly
Votes: 550
96. The Reeds (2010)
R | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A weekend boating party turns into a nightmare for a group of young Londoners when they stumble upon a terrifying secret hidden in the reeds.
Director: Nick Cohen | Stars: Anna Brewster, Geoff Bell, Daniel Caltagirone, Emma Catherwood
Votes: 2,798
97. Redemption in Cherry Springs (2021 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 84 min | Mystery
Melanie and Jake follow a path of twists and turns till they uncover the shocking truth of Melanie's missing childhood friend Tony in her small town of Cherry Springs.
Director: Letia Clouston | Stars: Rochelle Aytes, Keith D. Robinson, Hanna-Lee Sakakibara, Rajiv Sharma
Votes: 572
98. The Wrong Nanny (2017)
TV-14 | 90 min | Thriller
A nanny hired to care for newborn twins turns out to be the mother's estranged daughter, given up at birth. Seeking revenge, the nanny plots to ruin her newly discovered mother's life.
Director: Craig Goldsmith | Stars: Lindsay Hartley, Freya Tingley, Brody Hutzler, Bree Williamson
Votes: 466
99. Unseen (II) (2016)
75 min | Documentary, Crime
In 2009, police discovered the bodies of eleven women decomposing in and around the home of a known sex offender. With access to the surviving victims, Unseen looks into how the murders of those women went unnoticed for so long.
Director: Laura Paglin | Stars: Vanessa Gay, Latundra Billups, Shawn Morris, Melvette Sockwell
Votes: 1,201
100. Night of the Living Dead: 30th Anniversary Edition (1999 Video)
Unrated | 93 min | Horror
A re-edited version of Night of the Living Dead (1968) by a few members of its creative team, excluding director George Romero. It cuts 15 minutes from the original and replaces it with 15 minutes of newly-shot footage.
Director: John A. Russo | Stars: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman
Votes: 248