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1. North by Northwest (1959)
Approved | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis
Votes: 346,222 | Gross: $13.28M
2. 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: 466,239 | Gross: $200.07M
3. Skyfall (2012)
PG-13 | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Judi Dench
Votes: 731,156 | Gross: $304.36M
4. Charade (1963)
Passed | 113 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Whom can she trust?
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn
Votes: 85,580 | Gross: $13.47M
5. Beginners (2010)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer and that he has a young male lover.
Director: Mike Mills | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic
Votes: 94,819 | Gross: $5.79M
6. JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (2021)
TV-14 | 118 min | Documentary, History
Declassified files related to President Kennedy's assassination in a far larger context, aiming to shine more light on what really happened in 1963.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Whoopi Goldberg, Oliver Stone, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Votes: 4,232
7. The Raspberry Reich (2004)
Unrated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A left-wing terrorist group, consisting of several homosexual men and a female leader, kidnaps the son of a wealthy industrialist.
Director: Bruce La Bruce | Stars: Susanne Sachße, Daniel Bätscher, Andreas Stich, Dean Monroe
Votes: 1,760
8. No (I) (2012)
R | 118 min | Drama, History
An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Luis Gnecco
Votes: 26,221 | Gross: $2.34M
9. Boa vs. Python (2004 Video)
R | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
After a genetically-altered python escapes, a scientist is enlisted to help kill it by releasing a giant boa constrictor that he owns.
Director: David Flores | Stars: David Hewlett, Jaime Bergman, Kirk B.R. Woller, Adamo Palladino
Votes: 4,169
10. Getting Straight (1970)
R | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Vietnam vet and former social radical is conflicted by his desire to become a teacher and his sympathy with anti-establishment student protests.
Director: Richard Rush | Stars: Elliott Gould, Candice Bergen, Robert F. Lyons, Jeff Corey
Votes: 1,645 | Gross: $3.86M
11. Barcelona (1994)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An American working in Barcelona, having sworn off beautiful women, is forced to be host to his playboy cousin in this witty comedy of good intentions and mixed signals.
Director: Whit Stillman | Stars: Taylor Nichols, Chris Eigeman, Tushka Bergen, Mira Sorvino
Votes: 6,654 | Gross: $7.27M
12. JFK: What the Doctors Saw (2023)
92 min | Documentary, History
Startling medical observations about JFK's wounds when seven doctors who were in the Parkland Hospital ER reunite to discuss a day none of them can forget.
Director: Barbara Shearer | Stars: Ronald C. Jones, Lawrence E. Klein, Joe D. Goldstrich, Kenneth Salyer
Votes: 560
13. The Secret Army (2024)
89 min | Documentary
Darragh MacIntyre reveals the strange story of the lost documentary that unmasked the IRA. Right at the bloodiest point of the conflict, IRA bombers were filmed unmasked, and most of its underground leadership appeared on camera.
Star: Darragh MacIntyre
Votes: 56
14. The Century of the Self (2002)
59 min | Documentary
A documentary about the rise of psychoanalysis as a powerful means of persuasion for both governments and corporations.
Stars: Adam Curtis, Robert Reich, Ann Bernays, Alfred Pritz
Votes: 6,360
15. Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019)
Not Rated | 128 min | Documentary, History
Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld. As their investigation closes in, they discover a... See full summary »
Director: Mads Brügger | Stars: Mads Brügger, Clarinah Mfengu, Saphir Wenzi Mabanza, U Thant
Votes: 2,793 | Gross: $0.09M
16. 9/11: Inside the President's War Room (2021)
TV-14 | 90 min | Documentary, History
9/11 from the President's perspective, with exclusive access to information from the one's that had to take decisions during the World Trade Center's attack.
Director: Adam Wishart | Stars: Richard Keil, George W. Bush, Andrew Card, Condoleezza Rice
Votes: 3,610
17. America's Book of Secrets (2012–2021)
TV-14 | 44 min | Documentary
From the facts behind the NSA spying scandals ("Big Brother") and the Boston Bombings ("American Terrorists") to America's secret prisons, Scientology, the Gold conspiracy and America's doomsday plans, this series features in-depth interviews with top journalists, law enforcement officials and whistleblowers.
Stars: Jonathan Adams, Barry Aird, Lance Reddick, Ronald Kessler
Votes: 962
18. Secret Agents (2004)
109 min | Crime, Action, Thriller
Moles threaten to foil a team of secret agents' plan.
Director: Frédéric Schoendoerffer | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, André Dussollier, Charles Berling
Votes: 4,812
19. The Power of Nightmares (2004)
60 min | Documentary, History
A series of three documentaries about the use of fear for political gain.
Stars: Gilles Kepel, William Kristol, Melvin Goodman, Richard Perle
Votes: 4,542
20. Terms and Conditions May Apply (2013)
Not Rated | 79 min | Documentary, News
A documentary that exposes what corporations and governments learn about people through Internet and cell phone usage, and what can be done about it ... if anything.
Director: Cullen Hoback | Stars: Max Schrems, Moby, Mark Zuckerberg, Orson Scott Card
Votes: 6,541 | Gross: $0.06M
21. ReMastered: Who Shot the Sheriff? (2018 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
The violent political suppression of the roots reggae movement in Jamaica told through an investigation into Jamaican politics and the CIA's involvement in the mysterious shooting of Bob Marley.
Director: Kief Davidson | Stars: Bob Marley, Arnold Bertram, Cindy Breakspeare, Nancy Burke
Votes: 1,736
22. City Slickers in Westworld (2017 Video)
6 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A comedy short that reunites the cast from the comedy hit, City Slickers. The cast and characters return for a 6 minute misadventure.
Director: The Director Brothers | Stars: Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Luke Hemsworth, Ptolemy Slocum
Votes: 185
23. Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary (2014)
95 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Dying to Know is an intimate portrait celebrating two very complex controversial characters in an epic friendship that shaped a generation. In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors ... See full summary »
Director: Gay Dillingham | Stars: John Perry Barlow, Dean Chamberlain, Ram Dass, Peggy Mellon Hitchcock
Votes: 490
24. Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia (2023 TV Movie)
Documentary, Crime, History
With his mafia wiseguy links and access to entertainment industry star power, Frank Sinatra helped John F. Kennedy into the White House in 1960. But it all came to a bitter end.
Director: David Harvey | Stars: Chuck Granata, Lenny Luizzi, Robert Foster, Robbyn Swan
Votes: 57
25. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2003)
Unrated | 74 min | Documentary
In April 2002, an Irish film crew is making a documentary about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, when a coup from the opposition is made.
Directors: Kim Bartley, Donnacha O'Briain | Stars: Hugo Chávez, Pedro Carmona, Jesse Helms, Colin Powell
Votes: 2,625
26. JFK: The Final Evidence (2023)
Documentary, Action, Crime
In this two-part series, explore the mystery behind the assassination of President John F Kennedy with Dr David J Hall.
Stars: Emma Long, David J. Hall, Chris Moran
Votes: 26
27. The Beatles and India (2021)
96 min | Documentary, Music
Documentary exploring how John, Paul, George and Ringo fell in love with Indian culture while visiting the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at his Himalayan ashram in 1968.
Directors: Ajoy Bose, Peter Compton | Stars: Shankara Angadi, Sidharth Bhatia, Steve Turner, Ajoy Bose
Votes: 501
28. The Living Dead (1995)
176 min | Documentary
Investigating the way politicians erase, rewrite and interpret the past to their own interest.
Star: Adam Curtis
Votes: 359
29. Race Against Time: The CIA and 9/11 (2021)
Documentary
Follows former top officials and elite operatives inside the CIA as they share accounts of their efforts to stop Osama bin Laden and the catastrophic attack they knew was coming.
Director: Matthew DeVoe | Stars: Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, Nada Bakos, George W. Bush, Sarah Carlson
Votes: 89
30. The New Rulers of the World (2001 TV Movie)
65 min | Documentary
The myths of globalisation have been incorporated into much of our everyday language. "Thinking globally" and "the global economy" are part of a jargon that assumes we are all part of one ... See full summary »
Directors: Alan Lowery, John Pilger | Stars: Pramoedya Ananta Toer, George Monbiot, Dita Sari
Votes: 264
31. Augusto Pinochet: The Coup, the Torture & the West (2023 TV Special)
45 min | Documentary, History
September 11th, 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the military coup that brought General Pinochet to power in Chile. With the support of world democracies, including the US and UK, the dictator ruled through terror and torture.
Director: Lyndy Saville | Stars: Cal Seville, Roberto Navarrete, Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, Grace Livingston
Votes: 13
32. The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction (2006 TV Movie)
Documentary
Documentary examining the growing number of conspiracy theories surrounding the destruction of the World Trade Center that have been circulating online.
Stars: Jon Rand, Lester Holt, Charles B. Strozier, Chip Berlet
Votes: 32
33. Broken Bridges (1999)
96 min | Drama
A young filmmaker of Azerbaijani origins decides to fulfill his seven-year obsession to make a docudrama about the short, tragic life of his late mother. Much to his American wife's ... See full summary »
Director: Rafigh Pooya | Stars: Peter Reckell, Rebeccah Bush, Behrouz Vossoughi, Fatima Ibragimkevoa
Votes: 61
34. Metamorfosis del jefe de la policía política (1974)
105 min | Drama
Director: Helvio Soto | Stars: Marcelo Romo, Patricia Guzmán, Rafael Benavente, Arnaldo Berríos
Votes: 10
35. Smart and Smarter (2014)
6 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Tammy Klembith | Stars: Carrie Finn, Devon Michaels, Evan Sloan
36. All-Seeing Eye Surveillance: Satan's Omniscience (2011 Video)
84 min | Documentary
Stars: Michael Hoggard, Bruce Bellocchi
37. Amnesty! When They Are All Free (2011)
70 min | Documentary
The documentary examines Amnesty International's successes and failures over the 50 years since it was founded.
Director: James Rogan | Stars: Claudio Cordone, Gerardo Ducos, Patricia Feeney, Said Haddadi
Votes: 13
39. Randomly Stopped and Searched for WMD's in North Texas! (2010 Video)
13 min | Short, Reality-TV
Star: Steven L. Anderson
40.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
RFK
(2004)
TV-PG | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Part One: The Garish Sun: Robert F. Kennedy devotes himself to his brother John, then deals with the pain of the assassination.
Director: David Grubin | Stars: Blair Brown, Roy M. Cohn, Robert Dallek, Peter Edelman
Votes: 78
41.
21 Jump Street (1987–1991)
Episode:
La Bizca
(1990)
TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Penhall and Hanson go to El Salvador to look for Marta.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: Johnny Depp, Holly Robinson Peete, Peter DeLuise, Dustin Nguyen
Votes: 116
42.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode:
Grissom Versus the Volcano
(2003)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Sheriff Rory Atwater is leaving the Orpheus hotel and witness a car bombing, where the driver, the valet and the bellhop die. Grissom and Catherine arrive to investigate the crime scene and... See full summary »
Director: Richard J. Lewis | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads
Votes: 779
43.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode:
Justice Is Served
(2001)
TV-PG | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Catherine gets emotionally involved while investigating the death of a six-year old girl at a carnival. Grissom, Nick and Warick take on the case of a jogger who was apparently attacked by an animal who knows how to use a scalpel.
Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads
Votes: 977
44.
Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999)
Episode:
Scene of the Crime
(1996)
TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two young black men are found shot to death at a project where Black Muslims have a security contract from HUD. Residents are hostile to the police initially. When one bereaved mother tells... See full summary »
Director: Kathy Bates | Stars: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hofmann
Votes: 134
45.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Deadbeat
(1996)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A man is accused of killing his deadbeat, abusive ex son-in-law. He claims self defense, and the outcome of the case rides on determining who was in possession of the murder weapon at the time.
Director: Constantine Makris | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Benjamin Bratt, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 289
46.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Double Blind
(1996)
TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A schizophrenic chemistry student is on trial for killing a former school janitor, but a professor claims that he is part of one of his drug studies and that his sickness is under control.
Director: Christopher Misiano | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Benjamin Bratt, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 300
47.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Legacy
(1997)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After a mother orders a professional hit on the new husband of her former daughter-in-law, detectives reopen an investigation into her son's death.
Director: Brian Mertes | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Benjamin Bratt, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 334
48.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Nullification
(1997)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An attempted armored car heist leads to the prosecution of a suburban right-wing militia group that claims to be at war with the U.S. government.
Director: Constantine Makris | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Benjamin Bratt, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 310
49.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Paradigm
(2004)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Green and his new partner, Joe Fontana, investigate the murder of an Iraq War veteran who has more incriminating Abu Ghraib prison photos. An Iraqi woman who is an American citizen is charged, but she claims to be a prisoner of war.
Director: Matthew Penn | Stars: Dennis Farina, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 274
50.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode:
Ghost
(2005)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a wealthy couple is found dead in their home, Benson and Stabler soon realize that their deaths are connected to a drug smuggling ring. Eventually the road leads back to the same drug ... See full summary »
Director: David Platt | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Diane Neal
Votes: 1,154