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1. Almost Famous (2000)
R | 122 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.
Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: Billy Crudup, Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson, Frances McDormand
Votes: 294,022 | Gross: $32.53M
2. The Hunt (II) (2020)
R | 90 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specific purpose - The Hunt.
Director: Craig Zobel | Stars: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Wayne Duvall
Votes: 129,329 | Gross: $5.81M
3. Spectre (I) (2015)
PG-13 | 148 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A cryptic message from James Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover the existence of a sinister organisation named SPECTRE. With a new threat dawning, Bond learns the terrible truth about the author of all his pain in his most recent missions.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Ralph Fiennes
Votes: 467,005 | Gross: $200.07M
4. Soul (2020)
PG | 100 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Joe is a middle-school band teacher whose life hasn't quite gone the way he expected. His true passion is jazz. But when he travels to another realm to help someone find their passion, he soon discovers what it means to have soul.
Directors: Pete Docter, Kemp Powers | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton, Rachel House
Votes: 381,112
5. Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)
PG-13 | 129 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Following the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever.
Director: Jon Watts | Stars: Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Marisa Tomei
Votes: 558,889 | Gross: $390.53M
6. Tomorrowland (2015)
PG | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Bound by a shared destiny, a teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory.
Director: Brad Bird | Stars: George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie, Raffey Cassidy
Votes: 191,616 | Gross: $93.44M
7. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
PG-13 | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush.
Director: Taika Waititi | Stars: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House
Votes: 142,234 | Gross: $5.20M
8. Criminal (2016)
R | 113 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a last-ditch effort to stop a diabolical plot, a dead CIA operative's memories, secrets, and skills are implanted into a death-row inmate in hopes that he will complete the operative's mission.
Director: Ariel Vromen | Stars: Kevin Costner, Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, Gary Oldman
Votes: 70,789 | Gross: $14.27M
9. The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020)
TV-MA | 101 min | Comedy, Horror
Two years after Cole survived a satanic blood cult, he's living another nightmare: high school. And the demons from his past? Still making his life hell.
Director: McG | Stars: Judah Lewis, Samara Weaving, Jenna Ortega, Emily Alyn Lind
Votes: 51,148
10. The Tender Bar (2021)
R | 106 min | Biography, Drama
A boy growing up on Long Island seeks out father figures among the patrons at his uncle's bar.
Director: George Clooney | Stars: Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Daniel Ranieri, Lily Rabe
Votes: 33,961
11. The Fifth Estate (2013)
R | 128 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.
Director: Bill Condon | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Carice van Houten, Alicia Vikander
Votes: 42,748 | Gross: $3.25M
12. Slacker (1990)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
A day in the life of Austin, Texas as the camera roams from place to place and provides a brief look at the overeducated, the social misfits, the outcasts and the oddballs.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine, Jan Hockey
Votes: 23,523 | Gross: $1.23M
13. Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told (2013)
350 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Adolf Hitler, born in Braunau, a man who will forever change the history of the world.
Director: Dennis Wise | Stars: Eva Braun, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Adolf Galland
Votes: 6,258
14. HyperNormalisation (2016)
166 min | Documentary
Adam Curtis explains how, at a time of confusing and inexplicable world events, politicians and the people they represent have retreated in to a damaging over-simplified version of what is happening.
Director: Adam Curtis | Stars: Adam Curtis, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Victor Gotbaum
Votes: 7,392
15. A Merry War (1997)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Gordon Comstock quits his job at an advertising agency in order to write poetry, only to find that poets, like everyone else, need money.
Director: Robert Bierman | Stars: Richard E. Grant, Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Wadham, Jim Carter
Votes: 1,552 | Gross: $0.30M
16. Mall (2014)
R | 88 min | Drama
The lives of five disaffected suburbanites come together at a shopping mall in the wake of one man's shooting spree.
Director: Joseph Hahn | Stars: James Frecheville, Cameron Monaghan, Ron Yuan, Bobbi Salvör Menuez
Votes: 1,550
17. Two Pigeons (2017)
TV-MA | 80 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
An oily, amoral estate agent is preyed upon by one of his victims, who quietly moves into his flat and, unseen, begins a deliciously malicious campaign of revenge. Two Pigeons is a dark comedy with a sinister streak.
Director: Dominic Bridges | Stars: Mandeep Dhillon, Javier Botet, Kola Bokinni, Michael McKell
Votes: 1,321
18. Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power (2019)
52 min | Documentary, Biography
Canadian author and poet Margaret Atwood discusses her life and work.
Directors: Nancy Lang, Peter Raymont | Stars: Margaret Atwood, Margaret Dorothy Atwood, Carl Edmund Atwood, Harold Atwood
Votes: 478
19. Fight the Good Fight (2017)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama
After his eldest son is murdered in a gangland hit, an absentee father desperately tries to protect what's left of the shattered family he abandoned.
Director: Glen Kirby | Stars: Matthew Jure, Ian Beattie, Thomas Beatty, Grace Calder
Votes: 671
20. Our Burmese Days (1996)
94 min | Documentary, Biography
An examination of biculturalism wrapped in an extraordinary personal odyssey.
Director: Lindsey Merrison | Star: Lindsey Merrison
21. Laboratory Greece (2019)
165 min | Documentary
A journey through Greece and Europe's past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories.
Director: Jacopo Brogi | Stars: Filippo Abbate, Konrad Adenauer, Salvador Allende, Rania Antonopoulos
Votes: 32
22. The Alternative Christmas Message 2013 (2013 TV Short)
2 min | Short
Star: Edward Snowden
Votes: 12
23. 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: 52
24. The World According to Radiohead (2019 TV Movie)
53 min | Documentary, Music
Director: Benjamin Clavel | Stars: Fabrice Colin, Michel Delville, Tim Footman, Colin Greenwood
Votes: 57
25. Me and the Big Guy (1999)
10 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi, Short
In a totalitarian society Big Brother watches everyone. That means he also must see Citizen 43275-B all the time. How unlucky.
Director: Matt Nix | Stars: Michael Naughton, Dan Kern, James Jacobus, Sterling Wolfe
Votes: 198
26. RiffTrax: Last Man on Earth (2021)
TV-14 | 78 min | Comedy
Ah, The Last Man on Earth. Of all the adaptations of Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend, there's no denying that this was the earliest. And the Vincent Price-iest.
Stars: Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, Michael J. Nelson
Votes: 18
27. Crucible (2013)
4 min | Short, Action, Sci-Fi
Underground Artists defy an oppressive government by expressing their beliefs. When the secret police organize a raid, it backfires, and the art becomes the opposition's greatest weapon.
Director: Stephen Long | Stars: Jodi Bova, Zach Chase, Chris Cooney, Christophe Ennis
Votes: 9
28. Tax Cut Insanity (2017 Video)
26 min | Short, News
In this video taken from an "InfoWars" broadcast, Alex Jones interviews Stefan Molyneux about the Democrats' reaction to the tax cut, the mainstream media, Christmas, and more.
Stars: Alex Jones, Stefan Molyneux
Votes: 17
29. Prochtenie (2019)
28 min | Short, Drama
There was no one inside him, nothing but a trace of chill, a dream dreamt by no one else behind the face that looks like no other face (even in the bad paintings of the period) and the ... See full summary »
Director: Yuri Sarycheff | Star: Alexey Artyomov
Votes: 13
30. Germany Goes Full Internet Thought Police (2018 Video)
5 min | Short, News
Dave Cullen, aka Computing Forever, reports on Germany's latest crimes against free speech.
Star: Dave Cullen
31. Will Germany Drug People into Liking Immigrants? (2017 Video)
14 min | Short, News
TL;DR rejects the conspiracy theory that Germany is planning to spike the water supply with oxytocin.
Star: Teal Deer
32. There's Something Wrong with Hillary (2017 Video)
9 min | Short, News
Hillary Clinton won't leave the public stage, says Paul Joseph Watson, and that may help Donald Trump in 2020 while harming the Democratic Party in 2018.
Stars: Paul Joseph Watson, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
Votes: 36
33. A Reading: 'You and the Atomic Bomb' (2017 Video)
10 min | Short, History
In response to the recent tension between the United States and North Korea, Vernaculis reads George Orwell's essay, "You and the Atomic Bomb".
Star: Vernaculis
34. Mad with Impotence (2017 Video)
Short, News
Hillary Clinton writes a new book about her election loss, and Vernaculis is amazed to find that she thinks Orwell would be on her side.
Stars: Vernaculis, Hillary Clinton, Stephen Colbert
Votes: 8
35. The British Twitter Police (2018 Video)
8 min | Short, News
British police now function as the thought police, argues Carl Benjamin (aka Sargon of Akkad).
Star: Carl Benjamin
36. Punished Kavanaugh Reveals the Dark Heart of the Left (2018 Video)
34 min | Short, News
Star: Carl Benjamin
37. The Academic Mafia: The Corruption of 'Science' and the Forces Behind It (2015 Video)
53 min
Star: Malcolm Bowden
38. Technocratic Dystopia & the Facial Recognition Nightmare (2017 Video)
11 min | Documentary, Short
Dave Cullen, aka Computing Forever, looks at the possibility of a dystopia created by facial-recognition programs.
Star: Dave Cullen
40. David Coburn MEP on the Tyranny of the EU (2018 Video)
Short, News
Stars: Carl Benjamin, David Coburn
42. Google's 'Fantastic' Diversity Training Program (2017 Video)
17 min | Short
Andy and Chris Warski mock the photographic slides used in Google's diversity training program.
Stars: Andy Warski, Chris Warski
43. ¡No pasaran! Sie werden nicht durchkommen! Die Geschichte des spanischen Bürgerkriegs 1936-1939 (2004 TV Special)
33 min | Documentary
Directors: Lukas Pötzl, Laurin Rötzer | Stars: Ferdinand Hackl, Hans Landauer, Patrick von zur Mühlen, Amadeus Waltz
44. Televisual Man (2004)
4 min | Short, Drama, Horror
A man watches a television, obsessively flicking through channels until a glitch occurs on his TV set and he finds himself the subject of surveillance footage, he looks on confused as we pull wide the see that he also is being watched.
Director: Steve Piper | Star: Dave Smith
Votes: 22
46. H.G. Wells: The Island of Dr. Moreau - Book Review (2018 Video)
19 min | Short, History
Vernaculis reviews "The Island of Doctor Moreau" by H.G. Wells.
Star: Vernaculis
47. Scott Adams Talks About How Deep State Minions Spinning Indictment of 13 Russian (2018 Video)
48 min | News
In this Periscope livestream, Scott Adams talks about the latest news.
Star: Scott Adams
48. What Pisses Me Off About the Kate Steinle Murder Acquittal (2017 Video)
17 min | Short, News
Stefan Molyneux examines the case of Kate Steinle, who was shot by an illegal alien.
Star: Stefan Molyneux
49. Mass Public Temper Tantrum Caught on Camera (2017 Video)
5 min | Short, News
Paul Joseph Watson ridicules footage of anti-Trump protesters whose goal is to gather together and "scream helplessly at the sky".
Stars: Paul Joseph Watson, Owen Shroyer
Votes: 15
50. Hannah Arendt and Thoughtlessness (2017 Video)
11 min | Short, History
Vernaculis discusses Hannah Arendt on the anniversary of her death.
Star: Vernaculis