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1. Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)
PG-13 | 152 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Rey develops her abilities with the help of Luke Skywalker, as the Resistance prepares for battle against the First Order.
Director: Rian Johnson | Stars: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher
Votes: 672,203 | Gross: $620.18M
2. The A-Team (2010)
PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A group of Iraq War veterans look to clear their name with the U.S. Military, who suspect the four men of committing a crime for which they were framed.
Director: Joe Carnahan | Stars: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Sharlto Copley, Jessica Biel
Votes: 269,003 | Gross: $77.22M
3. Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction.
Director: J.J. Abrams | Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Benedict Cumberbatch
Votes: 497,136 | Gross: $228.78M
4. Rush Hour 3 (2007)
PG-13 | 91 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
After an attempted assassination on Ambassador Han, Lee and Carter head to Paris to protect a French woman with knowledge of the Triads' secret leaders.
Director: Brett Ratner | Stars: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Max von Sydow, Hiroyuki Sanada
Votes: 183,368 | Gross: $140.13M
5. Filth (I) (2013)
R | 97 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A corrupt, junkie cop with bipolar disorder attempts to manipulate his way through a promotion in order to win back his wife and daughter while also fighting his own inner demons.
Director: Jon S. Baird | Stars: James McAvoy, Jamie Bell, Eddie Marsan, Imogen Poots
Votes: 115,859 | Gross: $0.03M
6. 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: 178,560 | Gross: $144.73M
7. Antwone Fisher (2002)
PG-13 | 120 min | Biography, Drama
Antwone Fisher, a young navy man, is forced to see a psychiatrist after a violent outburst against a fellow crewman. During the course of treatment a painful past is revealed and a new hope begins.
Director: Denzel Washington | Stars: Denzel Washington, Derek Luke, Joy Bryant, Malcolm David Kelley
Votes: 38,437 | Gross: $21.08M
8. Sharky's Machine (1981)
R | 122 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Tom Sharky is demoted to vice after a bust goes terribly wrong. He and his team stumble across a mob murder tied to prostitution and government.
Director: Burt Reynolds | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Rachel Ward, Vittorio Gassman, Brian Keith
Votes: 6,729 | Gross: $35.61M
9. Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Det. Sgt. Mark Dixon wants to be something his old man wasn't: a guy on the right side of the law. Will Dixon's vicious nature get the better of him?
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill, Bert Freed
Votes: 9,968
10. Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
PG | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Ambitious but diminutive motorcycle cop John Wintergreen patrols the Arizona highways, yearning for promotion to Homicide Detective, while investigating a murder tied to hippies.
Director: James William Guercio | Stars: Robert Blake, Billy Green Bush, Mitchell Ryan, Jeannine Riley
Votes: 6,427 | Gross: $1.60M
11. Seminole (1953)
Approved | 87 min | Adventure, Western
A cavalry lieutenant recounts his efforts to make peace with the Seminole Indian tribe, under an evil major.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Rock Hudson, Barbara Hale, Anthony Quinn, Richard Carlson
Votes: 1,301
12. Inspector Gadget 2 (2003 Video)
G | 89 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Inspector Gadget returns in this sequel to the 1999 hit. A glitched Gadget once again must fight his arch nemesis, Claw, with the aid of a female Gadget: G2.
Director: Alex Zamm | Stars: French Stewart, Elaine Hendrix, Tony Martin, Caitlin Wachs
Votes: 7,065
13. Nothing Sacred (1937)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly
Votes: 7,264
14. The Last Laugh (1924)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
An aging doorman is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbors and society after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller, Emilie Kurz
Votes: 15,212 | Gross: $0.09M
15. All Night Long (1981)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A middle-aged executive's lifestyle and values are turned upside down after he is demoted to chain-store night manager.
Director: Jean-Claude Tramont | Stars: Gene Hackman, Barbra Streisand, Diane Ladd, Dennis Quaid
Votes: 2,000 | Gross: $4.45M
16. No Time for Sergeants (1958)
Approved | 119 min | Comedy, War
Will Stockdale is a country bumpkin drafted into the Air Force and too dumb to realize he's driving everyone around him crazy, no one more than Sergeant King.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams, Murray Hamilton
Votes: 4,441
17. Son of the Morning Star (1991– )
PG-13 | 187 min | Biography, History, Western
The story of George Custer, Crazy Horse and the events prior to the battle of the Little Bighorn, told from the different perspectives of two women.
Stars: Gary Cole, Rosanna Arquette, Stanley Anderson, Edward Blatchford
Votes: 1,059
18. The Wrong House (2016 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Thriller
Rebecca Lassiter and her husband Brian leave New York City to move to Los Angeles and find the perfect suburban house for them and their young daughter. However, a local personal trainer ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Irvin | Stars: Clare Kramer, Tilky Jones, Allison McAtee, Thomas Calabro
Votes: 396
19. Africa Screams (1949)
Passed | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two booksellers search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck
Votes: 4,057
20. The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)
97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A serial killer strikes again during World War II in Germany. The wrong man is arrested and a detective hunts down the real killer, but justice in Nazi Germany is not so easily administered.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Claus Holm, Mario Adorf, Hannes Messemer, Peter Carsten
Votes: 1,583
21. Fight Back to School II (1992)
106 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Sing quits the force after getting demoted to traffic duties, while his partner is assigned a mission involving foreign terrorists threatening to bomb a school in Hong Kong, so Sing decides to help by going undercover at the same school.
Director: Gordon Chan | Stars: Stephen Chow, Sharla Cheung, Man-Tat Ng, Athena Chu
Votes: 3,021
22. Nobody's Perfect (1968)
Unrated | 103 min | Comedy
In 1960's Japan, mischievous American seaman Doc Willoughby tries to outwit his superiors on the U.S.S. Bustard, attempts to woo U.S. Navy Lt. Tomiko Momoyama, and aims to return a stolen Buddha statue to its Japanese temple.
Director: Alan Rafkin | Stars: Doug McClure, Nancy Kwan, James Whitmore, David Hartman
Votes: 122
23. Between Heaven and Hell (1956)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, War
The spoiled rich son of a wealthy Southerner is changed by his experiences in the Pacific during World War II.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Broderick Crawford, Buddy Ebsen
Votes: 1,534
24. Scattered Clouds (1967)
108 min | Drama, Romance
A man falls in love with the widow of a man he killed in a car accident. Eventually she falls in love with him in return.
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Yûzô Kayama, Yôko Tsukasa, Mitsuko Kusabue, Mitsuko Mori
Votes: 1,341
25. Battle Stations (1956)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, War
The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: John Lund, William Bendix, Keefe Brasselle, Richard Boone
Votes: 298
26. Picture Snatcher (1933)
Not Rated | 77 min | Crime, Drama
Ex-convict Danny Kean decides to become honest as a photographer for a paper. He falls in love with Patricia, the daughter of the policeman who arrested him. Mr Nolan, her father, doesn't ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Ralph Bellamy, Patricia Ellis, Alice White
Votes: 1,746
27. The Human Jungle (1954)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Police procedural film about a police captain assigned to take over a demoralized police precinct and turn it around by solving all the unsolved cases as well as some new tough ones.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Gary Merrill, Jan Sterling, Regis Toomey, Lamont Johnson
Votes: 239
28. The Beast of the City (1932)
Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick ruthlessly goes after organized crime and is prepared to use brutal and violent methods to fight it.
Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford, Jean Hersholt
Votes: 1,419 | Gross: $0.89M
29. Bugles in the Afternoon (1952)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Western
After violently attacking a fellow officer Lt. Edward Garnett, cavalry Captain Kern Shafter is court martialled. Later, he rejoins the army with Custer's regiment at Fort Lincoln, Dakota, becoming a sergeant, where he runs into his old foe.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Ray Milland, Helena Carter, Hugh Marlowe, Forrest Tucker
Votes: 466
30. The Investigator (1997 TV Movie)
87 min | Biography, Drama
A military police woman is given the job of tracking down and removing lesbians from the army.
Director: Chris Oxley | Stars: Helen Baxendale, Christopher Fulford, Sean Gilder, Katrina Levon
Votes: 249
31. Strange Confession (1944)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, War
In World War 2 an escaped murderer who takes the identity of a dead soldier becomes a hero fighting in Africa, but his past catches up with him.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Richard Whorf, Allyn Joslyn, Ellen Drew
Votes: 223
32. Come On, Marines! (1934)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
"Lucky" Davis, a ladies-man and a devil-may-care U. S. Marine Sergeant, is leading a Marine-squadron on an expedition through a Philippine jungle where an outlaw bandit is leading a ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Richard Arlen, Ida Lupino, Roscoe Karns, Grace Bradley
Votes: 80
33. Loving You (1995)
TV-14 | 84 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Struggling in a loveless marriage, a hard-drinking, workaholic cop finds a chance at redemption after a fateful incident leaves him wounded.
Director: Johnnie To | Stars: Ching Wan Lau, Carman Lee, Chung-Hua Tou, Ruby Wong
Votes: 467
34. Submarine Patrol (1938)
Passed | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser and with a motley crew.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Richard Greene, Nancy Kelly, Preston Foster, George Bancroft
Votes: 288
35. Love Is on the Air (1937)
Passed | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Andy McCaine is the ace crime reporter for a radio station. However, his exposés of corruption in high places gets him in trouble with the sponsor of his show, E.E. Nichols, who is in ... See full summary »
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Ronald Reagan, June Travis, Eddie Acuff, Ben Welden
Votes: 229
36. Being Two Isn't Easy (1962)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
Husband and wife Gorô and Chiyo, and their only offspring, an infant son named Tarô, go through the ups and downs of family life living in a cramped modern apartment building in suburban ... See full summary »
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Fujiko Yamamoto, Hiroo Suzuki, Eiji Funakoshi, Kumeko Urabe
Votes: 485
37. Tornado (1943)
Approved | 83 min | Drama
Pete Ramsey (Morris) is a hard-working coal miner who falls in love with and marries scheming showgirl Victory Kane (Kelly). Victory presses Pete to fight for the position of the mine ... See full summary »
Director: William Berke | Stars: Chester Morris, Nancy Kelly, William Henry, Gwen Kenyon
Votes: 125
38. Blunder Boys (1955)
Passed | 16 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
The stooges go to criminology school and graduate with the lowest possible honors. The boys join the police force and are assigned to track down a crook called the "Eel", who disguises ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Benny Rubin
Votes: 400
39. Clover (2014)
120 min | Drama, Romance
A woman chooses between her childhood best friend and her stoic boss.
Director: Takeshi Furusawa | Stars: Emi Takei, Mark Chinnery, Kento Nagayama, Natsuna
Votes: 252
40. Cosmo Jones in the Crime Smasher (1943)
Approved | 62 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
An amateur detective and a janitor try to find a kidnapped heiress.
Director: James Tinling | Stars: Frank Graham, Edgar Kennedy, Gale Storm, Richard Cromwell
Votes: 196
41. Il Sergente Rompiglioni diventa... caporale (1975)
100 min | Comedy
An inept sergeant is mistaken for a secret agent and charged with finding a spy, but he is so stupid he is demoted and becomes a corporal.
Director: Mariano Laurenti | Stars: Franco Franchi, Mario Colli, Maria Pia Conte, Luciano Pigozzi
Votes: 52
42. Breaking Code
Action, Drama | Announced
At the outbreak of the Gulf War, this action drama is based on the true story of an enlisted soldier who unexpectedly stumbles on a web of illegal activities involving the upper chain of ... See full summary »
Director: Gerry Lively | Star: Billy Campbell
43. The Golden Fleecing (1940)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
After unwittingly selling a life insurance policy to a gangster who receives death threats, a naïve insurance salesman must keep him alive to avoid paying-up the benefits.
Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: Lew Ayres, Rita Johnson, Lloyd Nolan, Virginia Grey
Votes: 242
44. Hi, Nellie (1934)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The managing editor for a newspaper, in hot water with his boss, is demoted to writing the "Nellie Nelson" heart throb column, where he gets the unexpected opportunity to crack a major story.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks, Robert Barrat
Votes: 599
45. Homicide Bureau (1939)
Approved | 58 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but ... See full summary »
Director: Charles C. Coleman | Stars: Bruce Cabot, Rita Hayworth, Marc Lawrence, Richard Fiske
Votes: 222
46. Encore heureux (2015)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
Ogill's family struggles to connect the two ends. From deep debts to private bailiffs, through quick wealth schemes, Sam, Mary and their two children survive by collecting, repairing, and selling them on eBay.
Director: Benoît Graffin | Stars: Sandrine Kiberlain, Edouard Baer, Carla Besnaïnou, Mathieu Torloting
Votes: 455
47. Blondie's Big Moment (1947)
Approved | 69 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Dagwood falls foul of George M. Radcliffe even before he knows he's the new boss. After he manages to put a big deal in jeopardy he's in real trouble, and Blondie has the bright idea of ... See full summary »
Director: Abby Berlin | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Marjorie Ann Mutchie
Votes: 210
48. Keep 'Em Rolling (1934)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Romance, War
Sergeant Benny Walsh, a U.S. Army artilleryman, and his horse, Rodney, share a kindred spirit that is sympathetic to each other's needs. After years of service to his country, Sergeant ... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Walter Huston, Frances Dee, Minna Gombell, Frank Conroy
Votes: 136
49. Blondie's Reward (1948)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Family
Dagwood gets in trouble at work when he buys the wrong property for his boss and when he is accused of punching out a client's son.
Director: Abby Berlin | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Marjorie Ann Mutchie
Votes: 190
50. Riot Squad (1933)
62 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The constant battling over the same woman gets two detectives demoted to what's considered the toughest job in the Police Department--the Riot Squad.
Director: Harry S. Webb | Stars: Madge Bellamy, Pat O'Malley, James Flavin, Addison Richards
Votes: 99