I Need To Know - Most asked for...
by St-Ar | created - 04 Jul 2012 | updated - 01 Jun 2015 | PublicThis is a list of films that get asked for most frequently on IMDb's "I Need To Know" board.
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1. The Quest (1986)
PG | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A resourceful American orphan living in rural Australia finds himself caught up in the magic of a local Aboriginal myth that might be more real than anyone knows.
Directors: Brian Trenchard-Smith, Russell Hagg | Stars: Henry Thomas, Tony Barry, Rachel Friend, Tamsin West
Votes: 2,174
2. Fortress (1985)
TV-MA | 88 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
After being kidnapped for ransom by four criminals, a schoolteacher and her students flee into a cave and build fortifications in anticipation of a decisive battle with their captors.
Director: Arch Nicholson | Stars: Sean Garlick, Rachel Ward, Elaine Cusick, Laurie Moran
Votes: 3,547
3. Sole Survivor (1970 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Fantasy
This story is loosely based on the discovery of the B-24 "Liberator" bomber the "Lady Be Good" that was found in the Libyan desert after the crew got lost on their 1st bombing mission to Italy.
Director: Paul Stanley | Stars: Vince Edwards, Richard Basehart, William Shatner, Lou Antonio
Votes: 985
4. Robot Jox (1989)
PG | 85 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In the distant future, mankind has forsaken global wars for battles of single combat. The world has been divided into two opposing super powers, with each side represented by trained champions.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Gary Graham, Anne-Marie Johnson, Paul Koslo, Robert Sampson
Votes: 7,306 | Gross: $1.27M
5. The Quiet Earth (1985)
R | 91 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A scientist awakens to find himself alone in the world. In a desperate attempt to search for others, he finds only two who have their own agenda.
Director: Geoff Murphy | Stars: Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge, Pete Smith, Anzac Wallace
Votes: 27,646 | Gross: $2.12M
6. The Gate (1987)
PG-13 | 85 min | Fantasy, Horror
Kids left home alone accidentally unleash a horde of malevolent demons from a mysterious hole in their suburban backyard.
Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: Stephen Dorff, Christa Denton, Louis Tripp, Kelly Rowan
Votes: 19,620 | Gross: $13.54M
7. The Langoliers (1995)
PG-13 | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Most of the passengers on an airplane disappear, and the remainder land the plane in a mysteriously barren airport.
Stars: Patricia Wettig, Dean Stockwell, Tom Holland, Kate Maberly
Votes: 31,905
8. When a Stranger Calls Back (1993 TV Movie)
R | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young babysitter, all alone in the house with two children asleep above, is bothered by a stranger. Unfortunately, the phone's dead...
Director: Fred Walton | Stars: Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Jill Schoelen, Gene Lythgow
Votes: 4,132
9. After Hours (I) (1985)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong
Votes: 81,509 | Gross: $10.60M
10. The Haunted (1991 TV Movie)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama, Horror
When the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out its haunted.
Director: Robert Mandel | Stars: Sally Kirkland, Jeffrey DeMunn, Louise Latham, George D. Wallace
Votes: 2,206
11. All Summer in a Day (1982 TV Movie)
25 min | Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
A young girl on another planet waits for the sun to come out.
Director: Ed Kaplan | Stars: Reesa Mallen, Keith Coogan, Jerry Marshak, Tammy Simpson
Votes: 500
12. The Price of Life (1987)
41 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
The hours of your life as a currency you can buy or sell, trade or squander ...
Director: Stephen Tolkin | Stars: Dana Andersen, Diana Bellamy, Roy Brocksmith, Ron Campbell
Votes: 145
13. The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)
G | 90 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Milo is a boy who is bored with life. One day he comes home to find a toll booth in his room. Having nothing better to do, he gets in his toy car and drives through - only to emerge in a world full of adventure.
Directors: Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow, Dave Monahan | Stars: Butch Patrick, Hans Conried, Mel Blanc, Daws Butler
Votes: 3,542
14. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973 TV Movie)
Unrated | 74 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young couple inherits an old mansion inhabited by small demon-like creatures who are determined to make the wife one of their own.
Director: John Newland | Stars: Kim Darby, Jim Hutton, Barbara Anderson, William Demarest
Votes: 4,116
15. Bad Ronald (1974 TV Movie)
Unrated | 74 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A perverted teenage boy who lives in the walls of a house finds the house sold to a family after his mother dies, then he falls for one of the new residents.
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Scott Jacoby, Pippa Scott, John Larch, Dabney Coleman
Votes: 2,416
16. The Bermuda Depths (1978 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 98 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Scientists investigating the briny deep are threatened by a giant turtle and the spirit of a young brunette swimmer in the Bermuda Triangle.
Director: Tsugunobu Kotani | Stars: Leigh McCloskey, Carl Weathers, Connie Sellecca, Julie Woodson
Votes: 912
17. Where Have All the People Gone (1974 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 74 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
After a catastrophic solar flare decimates almost all life, reducing people to powdery substance, a group of survivors treks across the devastated Earth.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Peter Graves, George O'Hanlon Jr., Kathleen Quinlan, Verna Bloom
Votes: 1,501
18. Don't Go to Sleep (1982 TV Movie)
93 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young girl begins seeing the ghost of her sister who died in an accident a year earlier.
Director: Richard Lang | Stars: Dennis Weaver, Valerie Harper, Robin Ignico, Kristin Cumming
Votes: 1,493
19.
The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode:
Child of Glass
(1978)
Unrated | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A boy continues to see a ghost of a Creole girl and he has to help her solve a riddle...otherwise he might be haunted for the rest of his life!
Director: John Erman | Stars: Barbara Barrie, Biff McGuire, Anthony Zerbe, Nina Foch
Votes: 557
20. Over the Edge (1979)
PG | 95 min | Crime, Drama
A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada after the death of one of their own.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan | Stars: Matt Dillon, Michael Eric Kramer, Pamela Ludwig, Vincent Spano
Votes: 8,130
21. Defending Your Life (1991)
PG | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
In an afterlife way-station resembling a major city, the lives of the recently deceased are examined in a court-like setting.
Director: Albert Brooks | Stars: Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Lee Grant
Votes: 21,322 | Gross: $16.37M
22. Mindhunters (2004)
R | 106 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A group of FBI trainees are taken to a remote island for simulation training. However, once there, they realize that they are being hunted by a serial killer, who might be someone amidst them.
Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Val Kilmer, LL Cool J, Christian Slater, Eion Bailey
Votes: 64,232 | Gross: $4.48M
23. The Heavenly Kid (1985)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
In order to earn his wings and get into heaven, a hip guardian angel is handed the task of watching over a lonely high school boy who needs guidance on how to fit in.
Director: Cary Medoway | Stars: Lewis Smith, Jason Gedrick, Jane Kaczmarek, Richard Mulligan
Votes: 5,643 | Gross: $3.85M
24. Running Scared (2006)
R | 122 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A low-ranking thug is entrusted by his crime boss to dispose of a gun that killed corrupt cops, but things get out of control when the gun ends up in wrong hands.
Director: Wayne Kramer | Stars: Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Chazz Palminteri, Vera Farmiga
Votes: 103,723 | Gross: $6.86M
25. Night of the Demons (1988)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Ten teenagers party at an abandoned funeral parlor on Halloween night. When an evil force awakens, demonic spirits keep them from leaving and turn their gathering into a living Hell.
Director: Kevin Tenney | Stars: Cathy Podewell, Alvin Alexis, Hal Havins, Allison Barron
Votes: 19,158 | Gross: $3.11M
26. Goliath Awaits (1981)
PG | 200 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A team of scientists discover a secret underwater community within the wreck of an ocean liner that sank during World War II.
Stars: Mark Harmon, Christopher Lee, Eddie Albert, John Carradine
Votes: 1,199
27. The Hugga Bunch (1985 TV Movie)
48 min | Family, Fantasy, Musical
A girl travels through her mirror into HuggaLand to find a way to keep her grandmother, the only one who knows how to hug, young.
Director: Gus Jekel | Stars: Gennie James, Terry Castillo, Tony Urbano, Natalie Masters
Votes: 404
28. Playing Dangerous (1995)
PG-13 | 86 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A young scientific whiz (Mikey LeBeau) virtually single-handedly defeats corporate mercernaries who take his family hostage to get a blueprint for a top secret super-fast computer chip.
Director: Lawrence Lanoff | Stars: Mikey LeBeau, David Keith Miller, George Shannon, Linda LoPorto
Votes: 363
29. Remote (1993 Video)
PG | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A 13-year-old boy, obsessed with making remote-control toys, puts up a fight when trapped in a vacant model house with three dimwit prison escapees.
Director: Ted Nicolaou | Stars: Chris Carrara, Jessica Bowman, John Diehl, Tony Longo
Votes: 787
30. Buried Alive (1990 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A husband finds out that his wife and her lover are trying to kill him.
Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Tim Matheson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, William Atherton, Hoyt Axton
Votes: 5,142
31. Something Evil (1972 TV Movie)
Unrated | 73 min | Horror
A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there is an unseen presence in the house, and that it wants to take possession of the wife.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Darren McGavin, Sandy Dennis, Ralph Bellamy, Jeff Corey
Votes: 2,095
32. Crowhaven Farm (1970 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Drama, Horror
A young couple inherits a farm. Hoping that the rural location might help to patch up their strained marriage, they move into it, only to be confronted by the supernatural forces that inhabit it.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Hope Lange, Paul Burke, Lloyd Bochner, John Carradine
Votes: 1,020
33. Warriors of Virtue (1997)
PG | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A young boy is whisked away to the mythical land of Tao where he becomes the center of a conflict between an evil lord and a group of animal warriors.
Director: Ronny Yu | Stars: Angus Macfadyen, Mario Yedidia, Marley Shelton, Chao Li Chi
Votes: 3,536 | Gross: $6.45M
34. Crime Busters (1977)
PG | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
An attempted robbery turns to be an unexpected recruitment when two unemployed men mistakenly break into a police office instead of a store.
Director: Enzo Barboni | Stars: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, David Huddleston, Luciano Catenacci
Votes: 12,753
35. Northstar (1986 TV Movie)
90 min | Sci-Fi
An astronaut's ship passes through a strange magnetic field on its way back to Earth, and when he emerges from it after landing, he finds he has acquired superhuman powers and a super-genius IQ.
Director: Peter Levin | Stars: Greg Evigan, Deborah Wakeham, Mitchell Ryan, Mason Adams
Votes: 191
36. Time Masters (1982)
78 min | Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Piel, a 7 or 8 year old boy, is alone on the desert planet Perdide, only survivor of an attack by giant hornets. Calling for help, Piel's father's friend Jaffar keeps contact with the kid and hurries across space toward Perdide.
Director: René Laloux | Stars: Jean Valmont, Michel Elias, Frédéric Legros, Yves-Marie Maurin
Votes: 6,120
37.
The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode:
I-Man
(1986)
Unrated | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When a man is exposed to an alien gas, he acquires the ability to heal instantly and survive any injury or toxin.
Director: Corey Allen | Stars: Scott Bakula, Ellen Bry, Joey Cramer, John Bloom
Votes: 334
38. Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987)
PG | 99 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A lonely boy who is transferred from his dull life with his adoptive parents to the land where his real father is the King. In that country, he sets out on a quest, together with his new friend, to destroy the evil Knight Kato.
Director: Vladimir Grammatikov | Stars: Nick Pickard, Christian Bale, Timothy Bottoms, Susannah York
Votes: 6,069
39. Prince of Darkness (1987)
R | 102 min | Horror
A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open the container, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all humanity.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Jameson Parker, Victor Wong
Votes: 50,002 | Gross: $14.18M
40. Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Horror
In a small Southern town, four vigilantes wrongfully execute a mentally-challenged man, but after the court sets them free mysterious "accidents" begin to kill them off one by one.
Director: Frank De Felitta | Stars: Charles Durning, Robert F. Lyons, Claude Earl Jones, Lane Smith
Votes: 8,216
41. The Challenge (1970 TV Movie)
74 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Gallery, a U.S. commando, and Yuro, an enemy commando, are sent to a no man's Pacific jungle island to capture a crashed U.S. space satellite. Whoever survives, wins. Their nations have agreed to this to avoid war, but they cheat.
Director: George McCowan | Stars: Darren McGavin, Broderick Crawford, James Whitmore, Skip Homeier
Votes: 250
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