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1. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure
In 1938, after his father goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones finds himself up against the Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 813,182 | Gross: $197.17M
2. Oblivion (I) (2013)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A veteran assigned to extract Earth's remaining resources begins to question what he knows about his mission and himself.
Director: Joseph Kosinski | Stars: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Andrea Riseborough, Olga Kurylenko
Votes: 554,405 | Gross: $89.02M
3. Rope (1948)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two men try to convince themselves they've committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party after strangling a former classmate to death.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Dick Hogan
Votes: 154,419
4. Twixt (2011)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A struggling horror writer visiting a small town on a book tour gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Elle Fanning, Ben Chaplin
Votes: 11,753
5. The Bone Collector (1999)
R | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A quadriplegic ex-homicide detective and his partner try to track down a serial killer who is terrorizing New York City.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah, Michael Rooker
Votes: 185,546 | Gross: $66.52M
6. Fear Street: Part Three - 1666 (2021)
R | 114 min | Horror, Mystery
The origins of Sarah Fier's curse are finally revealed as history comes full circle on a night that changes the lives of Shadysiders forever.
Director: Leigh Janiak | Stars: Kiana Madeira, Ashley Zukerman, Gillian Jacobs, Olivia Scott Welch
Votes: 63,879
7. Darkness (2002)
PG-13 | 88 min | Horror
A teenage girl moves into a remote country house with her family, only to discover that their gloomy new home has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy the family.
Director: Jaume Balagueró | Stars: Anna Paquin, Lena Olin, Iain Glen, Giancarlo Giannini
Votes: 20,385 | Gross: $22.16M
8. The Hallow (2015)
Not Rated | 97 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
A family who moved into a remote mill house in Ireland finds themselves in a fight for survival with demonic creatures living in the woods.
Director: Corin Hardy | Stars: Joseph Mawle, Bojana Novakovic, Michael McElhatton, Michael Smiley
Votes: 18,579 | Gross: $0.01M
9. The City of the Dead (1960)
PG-13 | 76 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft; during her stay at an eerie inn, she discovers a startling secret about the town and its inhabitants.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Patricia Jessel, Dennis Lotis, Christopher Lee, Tom Naylor
Votes: 8,554
10. Lost Boys: The Thirst (2010 Video)
R | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Multi-arrow crossbow? Check. Holy water grenade launcher? Ready. Stake-shooting M134? Got that, too. Edgar Frog is locked and loaded for his bloodiest badass battle yet with the undead.
Director: Dario Piana | Stars: Corey Feldman, Casey B. Dolan, Tanit Phoenix, Jamison Newlander
Votes: 4,888
11. A Murder of Quality (1991 TV Movie)
90 min | Mystery
Taken from the book by John le Carré, George Smiley rallies to the aid of his former intelligence colleague, Ailsa Brimley, to investigate a mysterious letter from a junior master's wife at... See full summary »
Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland, Glenda Jackson, Billie Whitelaw
Votes: 971
12. Umberto Eco: A Library of the World (2022)
80 min | Documentary
Wandering these rooms, hallways, salons is a lover, a collector and above all a reader of books: Umberto Eco in his private library.
Director: Davide Ferrario | Stars: Giuseppe Cederna, Carlotta Eco, Emanuele Eco, Pietro Eco
Votes: 210
13. The Entity (2015)
Not Rated | 80 min | Horror
A group of media students decide to make a documentary on internet videos and look for suitable material online. However, they stumble upon a video tied to an ancient and deadly curse.
Director: Eduardo Schuldt | Stars: Rodrigo Falla, Daniella Mendoza, Carlos Casella, Mario Gaviria
Votes: 579
14. To Here Knows When (2013)
85 min | Fantasy, Mystery
After a mysterious absence, Joe (Patrick O'Brien) returns home to find his wife (Kitty Colquhoun) has taken in a lodger (Hanna Stanbridge).
Director: Grant McPhee | Stars: Patrick O'Brien, Kitty Colquhoun, Hanna Stanbridge, Graham Stewart
Votes: 50
15. The Secret of Arkandias (2014)
91 min | Adventure, Family
Theo discovers a book about magic at the local library. In order to save his mother from wrongful accusations, Theo teams up with his friend Bonnav and Laura, to make a magic ring that ... See full summary »
Directors: Alexandre Castagnetti, Julien Simonet | Stars: Ryan Brodie, Timothée Coetsier, Pauline Brisy, Christian Clavier
Votes: 370
16. Sinister Circle (2016)
87 min | Fantasy, Horror
After the death of a group of teenagers using the Ouija, the psychologist Fernanda and her son return to Peru, but they will find themselves surrounded by an evil entity as big as its wicked sect.
Director: Dorian Fernández-Moris | Stars: Miguel Arce, Attilia Boschetti, Mathías Brivio, Ismael Contreras
Votes: 373
17. H. P. Lovecraft's the Dunwich Horror and Other Stories (2007)
46 min | Animation, Horror
Three classic H.P. Lovecraft stories are brought to life by animated clay puppets and miniatures. They are 'The picture in the house', The Dunwich horror' and 'The festival'.
Director: Ryo Shinagawa | Stars: Mickey Curtis, Tasuku Emoto, Ken'ichi Endô
Votes: 110
18. The Lumberjack (2023)
40 min | Short, Horror
"A grieving novelist retreats to a remote mountain cabin to find solace, but soon he will find himself in a fight for survival against a malevolent spirit."
Director: Dimitris Tsabiras | Stars: Evangelos Kourgias, Stergios Xynos, Efstathia Agelari, Konstantinos Deliboridis
Votes: 18
19. The Ghost of Rashmon Hall (1948)
52 min | Horror
A doctor is summoned to an old dark house to rid it of evil spirits.
Director: Denis Kavanagh | Stars: Valentine Dyall, Anne Howard, Alec Faversham, Howard Douglas
Votes: 225
20. La hermandad (2013)
92 min | Horror, Thriller
Sara is a popular novelist who after suffering an accident, is hosted in a remote monastery in which inhabits an ancient brotherhood of Benedictine monks. While Sara is recovering in bed, she begins to feel curious about strange happenings.
Director: Julio Martí | Stars: Paula Bares, Edi Bonet, Lydia Bosch, José Luis de Madariaga
Votes: 236
21. Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) (2011)
31 min | Documentary, Short, History
A look at the collections of books, instruments and medical anomalies at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Mutter Museum housed there.
Directors: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay | Stars: Marie Fury, Derek Jacobi
Votes: 98
22. Porto Santo (1997)
90 min | Drama, Mystery
A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according to a legend, Christopher Columbus the ... See full summary »
Director: Vicente Jorge Silva | Stars: Leonor Silveira, Carlos Martins Medeiros, Ana Zanatti, Beatriz Batarda
Votes: 49
23. L'intrepido Wilson (2014– )
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Stars: Davide Daluiso, Rita Rusciano, Roberto Siepi, Matteo Tosi
Votes: 6
24. Historias de 'Con la muerte en los tacones': Asesina como puedas 2 (2014)
11 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Director: David Díaz | Stars: Jandra Dubois, María José Contreras, Natalia Morales, Carlos Movilla
Votes: 9
25. So Above (2017)
15 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
An avant-garde meditation on time and the cycles of nature, drawing from the symbolic imagery of European and Egyptian mythology, Hinduism, Thelema, The Kabbalah, Hermetic Alchemy and other esoteric sources.
Director: Charles Daman Richardson | Stars: Kaliah Von Graves, Andrew Riddle
26. Gretel (II) (2011)
17 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
A girl fears the shadows and always lives in darkness to avoid them. She has a book in which there is an enchantment about how to remove your own shadow. She just has to find the courage to use it.
Director: Valentina Gravili | Star: Tatjana Nardone
27. Historias de 'Con la muerte en los tacones': Genio y figura (2013)
7 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Director: David Díaz | Stars: Karim Elaafi, Shathu Entayla, Clara Kronborg, Jorge Maqueda
Votes: 11
28. Paramount-Bray Pictographs, No. 83 (1917)
Documentary, Short
Subjects include: "Goat Ranching in America", "The Art of Bookbinding", and the cartoon Goodrich Dirt at the Seashore (1917).
Director: P.D. Hugon
30. Historias de 'Con la muerte en los tacones': Seductora revancha (2012)
4 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Director: David Díaz | Stars: Iavor Bratoev, Joanna Carly, Aida Gonzalo
Votes: 8
31. The Picture in the House (2010)
13 min | Short, Horror
A young man takes shelter from a storm in an old house inhabited by a strange older man. While examining an old book, the young man begins to wonder if this house and it's host are hiding a... See full summary »
Director: Miles Finlayson | Stars: Mark Slacke, Ron Tarrant
33. Historias de 'Con la muerte en los tacones': La perfecta combinación (2012)
4 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Director: David Díaz | Stars: Clara Dantés, Susana Dantés
Votes: 7
34.
The Addams Family (1964–1966)
Episode:
Gomez, the Cat Burglar
(1965)
TV-G | 25 min | Comedy, Family, Horror
Gomez is having some sleepwalking issues brought on by Grandma's famous yak stew. The house descends into chaos when a connection is made between a recent spat of cat burglaries and Gomez's... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Carolyn Jones, John Astin, Jackie Coogan, Ted Cassidy
Votes: 204
35.
The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode:
Nachtmusik
(1978)
59 min | Crime, Drama
The Kerner family has an evening with guests in their house.Their son Arno takes the keys off the pockets of the coats and with his girlfriend visits the house of a guest.But a man appears in the dark and Arno hits him with a pepper-mill.
Director: Helmuth Ashley | Stars: Siegfried Lowitz, Michael Ande, Jan Hendriks, Henning Schlüter
Votes: 40
36.
Angel (1999–2004)
Episode:
The Bachelor Party
(1999)
Unrated | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Doyle receives a surprise visit from his wife, who wishes to end their marriage so that she may wed a demon.
Director: David Straiton | Stars: David Boreanaz, Charisma Carpenter, Glenn Quinn, Kristin Dattilo
Votes: 2,229
37.
The Brady Bunch (1969–1974)
Episode:
The Possible Dream
(1970)
Not Rated | 25 min | Comedy, Family
Cindy accidentally mixes in Marcia's diary with other books for a book drive. Marcia immediately freaks out, because she's worried that someone else will read it and learn about her secret crush on TV star Desi Arnaz Jr.
Director: Oscar Rudolph | Stars: Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Ann B. Davis, Desi Arnaz Jr.
Votes: 196
38.
Relic Hunter (1999–2002)
Episode:
Gypsy Jigsaw
(2000)
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Romania, 1830: The dying Romani king gives orders to hide the crown. Trinity College, 2000: Sydney receives a deck of rare tarot cards by mail from her friend who just died. The infamous ... See full summary »
Director: Larry A. McLean | Stars: Tia Carrere, Christien Anholt, Lindy Booth, Noam Jenkins
Votes: 93
39.
Relic Hunter (1999–2002)
Episode:
Love Letter
(2000)
TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Sydney and Nigel go to France to look for the lost wedding vows of Josephine Pontoise and Guy de Bourdin, which would prove their heir is the rightful owner of St. Agnes Sur-Loire.
Director: Jean-Pierre Prévost | Stars: Tia Carrere, Christien Anholt, Lindy Booth, Michel Modo
Votes: 105
40.
She-Wolf of London (1990–1991)
Episode:
Little Bookshop of Horrors
(1990)
TV-PG | 47 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Randi and Ian investigate when they learn that two prominent publishers were murdered by normal people dressed as characters in the classic novels recently delivered by an antiquarian ... See full summary »
Director: Gerry Mill | Stars: Kate Hodge, Neil Dickson, Scott Fults, Jean Challis
Votes: 23
41.
The Tom Woods Show (2013– )
Is Recycling a Scam?
(2013 Podcast Episode)
News
Stars: Tom Woods, Floy Lilley
42.
The Truth Behind (2006– )
Episode:
The Devil's Bible
(2008)
51 min | Documentary
Scholars discuss the legendary Codex Gigas, a sprawling medieval manuscript shrouded in mystery that was allegedly written by a doomed monk.
Director: Robert Michaels | Stars: Dominic Monaghan, Christopher de Hamel, Michael Gullick, Anna Wolodarski
Votes: 237
43.
Les Trésors de... (2014– )
Episode:
Les Trésors de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
(2020)
90 min | Documentary, History
The National Library of France is the guardian of priceless treasures that tell our history, our illustrious thinkers, writers, scholars and artists. Telling the story of the exceptional ... See full summary »
Directors: Marie David, Guillaume Perez | Stars: Sophie Jovillard, Stéphanie Coudurier, Guillaume Apollinaire, Arletty
Votes: 5
44.
Warehouse 13 (2009–2014)
Episode:
Nevermore
(2009)
TV-PG | 42 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
The Warehouse team narrowly misses nabbing McPherson then Myka's father falls under the influence of an artifact that resists the purple goo.
Director: Tawnia McKiernan | Stars: Eddie McClintock, Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek, Genelle Williams
Votes: 614
45.
Fringe (2008–2013)
Episode:
Concentrate and Ask Again
(2011)
TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
When a scientist is killed by a blue dust that grinds his bones up, the Fringe Division investigates the case and suspects a biological attack. The investigation leads them to a former ... See full summary »
Director: Dennis Smith | Stars: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Lance Reddick, Blair Brown
Votes: 1,983
46.
Pawn Stars (2009– )
Episode:
Deals from Hell
(2010)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Reality-TV
Rick restores a first-class traveler's trunk and looks into the history of a kris sword.
Director: Guy Fiorita | Stars: Antwaun Austin, Rick Dale, Corey Harrison, Richard Harrison
Votes: 66
47.
Pawn Stars (2009– )
Episode:
Put Up Your Dukes
(2011)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Reality-TV
A book so rare the Pawn Shop has two experts look at it, a room full of memorabilia for John Wyane fans, and a 100 year old army uniform all have stories to tell.
Director: Jairus Cobb | Stars: Corey Harrison, Richard Harrison, Rick Harrison, Drew Max
Votes: 58
48.
Pawn Stars (2009– )
Episode:
Striking a Chord
(2011)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Reality-TV
Sellers bring in a Gibson Mandolin, an original of the First Acts of Congress, a Breitling wristwatch, a robot and an Airstream trailer. One is worthless but a couple have the potential for real money.
Director: Jairus Cobb | Stars: Jesse Amoroso, Corey Harrison, Richard Harrison, Rick Harrison
Votes: 54
49.
Melissa & Joey (2010–2015)
Episode:
The Donor
(2012)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Romance
Mel's friend wants to have a baby with Joe.
Director: David Kendall | Stars: Melissa Joan Hart, Joey Lawrence, Taylor Spreitler, Nick Robinson
Votes: 132
50.
Ancient X-Files (2010– )
Episode:
Sodom and Gomorrah
(2012)
45 min | Documentary, History
For centuries, archeologists have searched for these original "cities of sin" supposedly destroyed by the wrath of God. But have the experts been looking in the wrong place all these years?... See full summary »
Directors: John Blystone, Isabel Tang | Stars: Steven Collins, David Maltsberger, Jehad Haroun, Nick Pelling
Votes: 11