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1. Caligula (1979)

Unrated | 156 min | Drama, History

A dramatization of the ascent to Caesar and subsequent reign of Caligula, one of the most notorious leaders of ancient Rome. We see his ambition, his scheming, his perversion and decadence, his brutality and his lunacy.

Director: Tinto Brass | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren, Teresa Ann Savoy

Votes: 38,416 | Gross: $23.44M

2. Don't Breathe (2016)

R | 88 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

Hoping to walk away with a massive fortune, a trio of thieves break into the house of a blind man who isn't as helpless as he seems.

Director: Fede Alvarez | Stars: Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto

Votes: 301,271 | Gross: $89.22M

3. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

Passed | 134 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Wesley Addy

Votes: 62,016 | Gross: $4.05M

4. Threads (1984 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 112 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

The effects of a nuclear holocaust on the working class city of Sheffield, England and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization.

Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, David Brierly, Rita May

Votes: 20,208

5. Epic (2013)

PG | 102 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and evil is taking place. She bands together with a ragtag group of characters to save their world--and ours.

Director: Chris Wedge | Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Josh Hutcherson, Beyoncé, Colin Farrell

Votes: 109,984 | Gross: $107.52M

6. Mad God (2021)

Unrated | 83 min | Animation, Fantasy, Horror

The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the world's preeminent stop-motion animator.

Director: Phil Tippett | Stars: Alex Cox, Niketa Roman, Satish Ratakonda, Harper Taylor

Votes: 14,821

7. They Shall Not Grow Old (II) (2018)

R | 99 min | Documentary, History, War

A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.

Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Thomas Adlam, William Argent, John Ashby, Attwood

Votes: 38,515 | Gross: $17.96M

8. Poltergeist III (1988)

PG-13 | 98 min | Horror, Thriller

Carol Anne is staying with her aunt in a high-rise building, where the supernatural forces haunting her make their return.

Director: Gary Sherman | Stars: Heather O'Rourke, Tom Skerritt, Nancy Allen, Zelda Rubinstein

Votes: 20,515 | Gross: $14.11M

9. Get Carter (1971)

R | 112 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate.

Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne

Votes: 36,829 | Gross: $0.39M

10. The Proposition (2005)

R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Western

A lawman apprehends a notorious outlaw and gives him nine days to kill his older brother, or else they'll execute his younger brother.

Director: John Hillcoat | Stars: Ray Winstone, Guy Pearce, Emily Watson, Richard Wilson

Votes: 55,015 | Gross: $1.90M

11. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)

PG | 76 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Batman is wrongly implicated in a series of murders of mob bosses actually committed by a new vigilante assassin.

Directors: Kevin Altieri, Boyd Kirkland, Frank Paur, Dan Riba, Eric Radomski, Bruce Timm | Stars: Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, Hart Bochner, Stacy Keach

Votes: 56,960 | Gross: $5.62M

12. Batman: Arkham City (2011 Video Game)

T | Action, Crime, Mystery

When part of Gotham is turned into a private reserve for criminals known as Arkham City, all hell is sure to break loose, and the Dark Knight is the only one who can stop it.

Director: Sefton Hill | Stars: Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, David Kaye, Carlos Alazraqui

Votes: 34,964

13. The Golden Glove (2019)

Not Rated | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Jonas Dassler, Vasiliki Georgina Pseimada, Christine Jensen, Greta Sophie Schmidt

Votes: 18,312

14. The Mother and the Whore (1973)

210 min | Drama, Romance

The chauvinist Alexandre balances relationships with several women in the post-1968 intellectual scene of Paris.

Director: Jean Eustache | Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Françoise Lebrun, Isabelle Weingarten

Votes: 6,723

15. Ludwig (1973)

R | 238 min | Biography, Drama, History

The reign of the tormented Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from 1864 to 1886.

Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano

Votes: 6,009

16. Faceless (1988)

98 min | Horror, Thriller

When model Barbara Hallen disappears in France, her father's private detective traces her steps to a private plastic surgery clinic run by Dr.Flamand.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Helmut Berger, Brigitte Lahaie, Telly Savalas, Christopher Mitchum

Votes: 1,840

17. Contracted: Phase II (2015)

Not Rated | 78 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Riley searches for a cure to the virus that took over Samantha before it consumes him and the entire world.

Director: Josh Forbes | Stars: Matt Mercer, Marianna Palka, Morgan Peter Brown, Anna Lore

Votes: 5,230

18. The Terror (1963)

TV-PG | 81 min | Horror, Thriller

A young French soldier cut off from his unit is beguiled by a mysterious woman, whom he learns is the wife of the local Baron - and that she seemingly died twenty years earlier.

Directors: Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Hale, Monte Hellman, Jack Hill, Dennis Jakob, Jack Nicholson | Stars: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Dick Miller

Votes: 8,505

19. A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)

Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama

Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.

Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Andréa Ferréol, Frances Barber

Votes: 7,587

20. Shiki (2010–2011)

TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Drama, Horror

When many deaths occur in the quiet village of Sotoba, Doctor Toshio Ozaki initially suspects an epidemic but soon becomes convinced that something else is causing them.

Stars: Tôru Ôkawa, Kôki Uchiyama, Kazuyuki Okitsu, Wataru Takagi

Votes: 3,937

21. The Awakening (1980)

R | 101 min | Horror

An archeologist discovers his daughter is possessed by the spirit of an Egyptian queen. To save mankind he must destroy her.

Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend, Stephanie Zimbalist

Votes: 2,870 | Gross: $8.42M

22. The Sandglass (1973)

124 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Józef visits his dying father at a remote mental institution, where time itself doesn't seem to exist, and the line between dreams and memories becomes indistinguishable.

Director: Wojciech Has | Stars: Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Irena Orska, Halina Kowalska

Votes: 4,987

23. Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire (2008)

TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, History, War

The historical drama details the Roman military campaigns against the barbarians. It shows how continuous wars depleted resources, a key factor in the fall of the Empire.

Stars: Leif Anders, Sam Mercurio, Karl Otter, Andre de Nesnera

Votes: 859

24. Office Killer (1997)

R | 82 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

A mousy office worker accidentally kills one of her coworkers, then proceeds to bump off a few others.

Director: Cindy Sherman | Stars: Florina Rodov, Jason Brill, Eddie Malavarca, Carol Kane

Votes: 2,395 | Gross: $0.04M

25. Under the Mountain (2009)

PG-13 | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Teenage twins Rachel and Theo travel to Auckland to stay with relatives after their mother suddenly dies. They find an alien environment and overhear Mr. Wilberforce talking about something stirring beneath the ground - the fire-raiser.

Director: Jonathan King | Stars: Tom Cameron, Sam Neill, Sophie McBride, Oliver Driver

Votes: 2,236

26. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (I) (1920)

Unrated | 69 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: John Barrymore, Martha Mansfield, Brandon Hurst, Charles Lane

Votes: 6,053

27. Flowers (II) (2015)

Not Rated | 79 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

An abstract, surreal horror film centering around six dead women waking up in the crawl space below their killer's house.

Director: Phil Stevens | Stars: Colette Kenny Mckenna, Krystle Fitch, Anastasia Blue, Tanya Erin Paoli

Votes: 455

28. The Last of England (1987)

Unrated | 92 min | Drama, Fantasy

The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.

Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Spencer Leigh, 'Spring' Mark Adley, Gerrard McArthur

Votes: 1,494

29. The North Wind (2021)

122 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

The matriarchal clan led by gorgeous Margarita enters a turbulent period when her son loses his beloved fiancée.

Director: Renata Litvinova | Stars: Mariya Berdinskikh, Ulyana Dobrovskaya, Sofya Ernst, Michael Gavasheli

Votes: 499

30. The Death Lullaby (1985)

27 min | Animation, Short, Drama

A semi-surreal disturbing visual narration that focuses among other things on a child that's being bullied by other kids.

Director: Hiroshi Harada | Stars: Kiyohiko Inami, Katsuhito Takahashi

Votes: 216

31. Hotel Monterey (1973)

65 min | Documentary

Hotel Monterey is a cheap hotel in New York reserved for the outcasts of American society. Chantal Akerman invites viewers to visit this unusual place as well as the people who live there, from the reception up to the last story.

Director: Chantal Akerman

Votes: 918

32. Film: The Living Record of Our Memory (2021)

120 min | Documentary

This documentary explores film through the voices of significant professionals who have contributed to make sure moving images survive and remain accessible.

Director: Inés Toharia Terán | Stars: Ann Adachi-Tasch, Laure Adler, Benjamin Chowkwan Ado, Janice Allen

Votes: 255

33. Lung II (2016)

74 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A nameless man wanders the city, littered with necrotic artifacts and a trail of corpses. Are his grotesque hallucinations clues to a violent past? Or are they premonitions?

Director: Phil Stevens | Stars: Phil Stevens, Bryant W. Lohr Sr., David Chopping, Angela Jane

Votes: 132

34. What Remains (2005)

Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, Biography

A look at the creative process of celebrated photographer Sally Mann.

Director: Steven Cantor | Stars: Sally Mann, Karen Bailey, Richard Jantz, Emmett Mann

Votes: 296

35. The Village (2010)

14 min | Animation, Short

A doctor mysteriously discovers that he is required urgently at the village to offer his services. He arrives there after a long and difficult journey, only to discover that the village is empty.

Director: Stelios Polychronakis

Votes: 78

36. Detropia (2012)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary

A documentary on the city of Detroit and its woes, which are emblematic of the collapse of the U.S. manufacturing base.

Directors: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady | Stars: Noah Stewart, Rachele Gilmnore, Michael Wanko, Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra

Votes: 1,626 | Gross: $0.36M

37. City of Gold (1957)

22 min | Documentary, Short, History

Author Pierre Berton tells the history of his hometown of Dawson City at its heyday during the Klondike Gold Rush.

Directors: Wolf Koenig, Colin Low | Star: Pierre Berton

Votes: 337

38. The London Nobody Knows (1968)

53 min | Documentary

A trippy 45-minute documentary of late-1960s London that is a fascinating time capsule of the remnants of a bygone age before London's extensive redevelopment in the late 1960s.

Director: Norman Cohen | Star: James Mason

Votes: 393

39. Restoration Australia (2015–2019)

Documentary, Adventure, History

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Stars: Sibella Court, Stuart Harrison, John Baker, Kevin McLeod

Votes: 55

40. Belarmino (1964)

80 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

Interview with a has-been boxing champion «who could have been great», probing, and soul revealing.

Director: Fernando Lopes | Stars: Belarmino Fragoso, Jean Pierre Gebler, Maria Teresa de Noronha, Bernardo Moreira

Votes: 481

41. W (2022)

102 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

Terminally ill Madame Europa languishes at her last post in the company of her Chinese man-machine. There is a sadomasochistic relationship between them. They are on the run from a war that is inexorably approaching through the darkness.

Director: Anna Eriksson | Stars: Anna Eriksson, Parco Lee, Jussi Parviainen, Hanna Trygg

Votes: 66

42. Frozen (1996)

99 min | Drama

A young performance artist decides to make his own suicide his last work of art. On the longest day of the year, he plans to melt a huge block of ice with his own body heat and die of ... See full summary »

Director: Xiaoshuai Wang | Stars: Hongsheng Jia, Xiaoqing Ma, Yu Bai, Geng Li

Votes: 306

43. Rape Climax! (1987)

64 min | Drama, Horror

The story follows a female artist who attends a meditation center that advertises a relaxation session in a large tank filled with water. She is drugged by the clinic's doctor who rapes her in the tank and film's the act.

Director: Hisayasu Satô | Stars: Yutaka Ikejima, Shôichirô Sakata

Votes: 79

44. The Man in the Lower-Left Hand Corner of the Photograph (1997)

14 min | Animation, Short, Drama

A man in a decaying room looks at an old photograph of himself and tries to recreate the happiness he once felt.

Director: Robert Morgan

Votes: 299

45. A Panicky Picnic (1909)

8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

On a fine winter morning, an aristocratic couple of city dwellers decide to have a picnic in the great outdoors, however, everything seems to go wrong, all at once.

Director: Segundo de Chomón

Votes: 344

46. Know Your Mushrooms (2008)

Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary

Fungi documentary exploring their longevity, environmental roles, cultural relevance, and mushroom foraging.

Director: Ron Mann | Stars: Larry Evans, Gary Lincoff

Votes: 325

47. Turned (II) (2015)

13 min | Short, Drama, Horror

In a dangerous, abandoned city, a mother has been bitten by a zombie. Locked in a house with a violent survivor, she must find a way to get her child to safety before her deteriorating mind and body turn her into a monster.

Director: Adam Bolt | Stars: Ryan Driscoll, Zackary Arthur, Benjamin Busch, Yuri Baranovsky

Votes: 64

48. Urbex Sessions (2015 TV Movie)

27 min | Documentary, History

Discover amazing abandoned and forgotten places of Belgium visited by urban explorers, photographers and artists-sportsmen.

Director: Eric Jaminet | Star: Raphaël Charlier

49. Inspector America (2011– )

TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary

Engineer Timothy Galarnick has been inspecting America's infrastructure for decades. In VIGILANTE INSPECTOR, he and his partner Chad Houseknecht are inspecting the nation's quickly decaying... See full summary »

Stars: Timothy Galarnyk, Archie Allen, Larry Prince, Toni Booker

Votes: 21

50. The Buddenbrooks (1959)

107 min | Drama

Second part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in 19th-century Germany.

Director: Alfred Weidenmann | Stars: Liselotte Pulver, Nadja Tiller, Hansjörg Felmy, Hanns Lothar

Votes: 188