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1. Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)
PG-13 | 125 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A woman who raised herself in the marshes of the Deep South becomes a suspect in the murder of a man with whom she was once involved.
Director: Olivia Newman | Stars: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, David Strathairn
Votes: 123,380 | Gross: $90.23M
2. Goodfellas (1990)
R | 145 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco
Votes: 1,259,475 | Gross: $46.84M
3. DogMan (2023)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A boy, bruised by life, finds his salvation through the love of his dogs.
Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Caleb Landry Jones, Jojo T. Gibbs, Christopher Denham, Clemens Schick
Votes: 11,158
4. Marrowbone (2017)
R | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young man and his three younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.
Director: Sergio G. Sánchez | Stars: George MacKay, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Mia Goth
Votes: 39,656 | Gross: $0.00M
5. Oculus (2013)
R | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A recently released inmate from a mental asylum learns from his sister that the murders he was convicted of committing were actually orchestrated by a supernatural entity, the Lasser Glass mirror.
Director: Mike Flanagan | Stars: Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, Katee Sackhoff, Rory Cochrane
Votes: 139,909 | Gross: $27.70M
6. Orphan (2016)
111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young woman moves to Paris with a disastrous past. When she becomes a woman and thinks she's finally free from her past's shadows, some characters show up and she gets the chance to become a unique heroine.
Director: Arnaud des Pallières | Stars: Adèle Haenel, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Solène Rigot, Vega Cuzytek
Votes: 1,360
7. Goodbye Berlin (2016)
93 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Two young teenage boys steal a car and embark on a road trip that will probably change their lives.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Tristan Göbel, Aniya Wendel, Justina Humpf, Paul Busche
Votes: 11,050
8. Seduced and Abandoned (1964)
Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama
A desperate Sicilian man, whose 15-year-old daughter was seduced and impregnated by his older daughter's fiancé, tries to find a way to save the family's honor.
Director: Pietro Germi | Stars: Saro Urzì, Stefania Sandrelli, Aldo Puglisi, Lando Buzzanca
Votes: 3,875
9. Custody (2017)
93 min | Drama, Thriller
A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the centre.
Director: Xavier Legrand | Stars: Léa Drucker, Denis Ménochet, Thomas Gioria, Mathilde Auneveux
Votes: 10,336 | Gross: $0.08M
10. The Drowning (2016)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A psychiatrist faces his past, present and future when he finds himself involved in the treatment of a young man recently released from prison for a murder committed when the boy was just 11 years old.
Director: Bette Gordon | Stars: Julia Stiles, John C. McGinley, Tracie Thoms, Avan Jogia
Votes: 3,348
11. Psychomagic, A Healing Art (2019)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary
Director Alejandro Jodorowsky unveils his theory of trauma therapy.
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky | Star: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Votes: 697
12. Amityville: An Origin Story (2023)
TV-MA | 201 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
This limited series is the first-ever elevated look at the strange alchemy of mass murder, 1970s paranormal obsession, and the explosion of the horror film genre that gave rise to The Amityville Horror sensation.
Stars: Tommy Maher, Carol Soviero, Christopher Lutz, Laura DiDio
Votes: 495
13. Huckleberry Finn (1974)
G | 118 min | Adventure, Family, Musical
In 1840s Missouri, young Huckleberry Finn, wanting to escape his violent drunkard father, joins Black runaway slave Jim on a quest for freedom down the Mississippi River on a raft.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Jeff East, Paul Winfield, Harvey Korman, David Wayne
Votes: 705 | Gross: $0.42M
14. Marinette (2023)
95 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Biopic of Marinette Pichon, first french female soccer player to sign on to the American professional league, record-woman in number of goals per game and selections for the French national team .
Director: Virginie Verrier | Stars: Garance Marillier, Émilie Dequenne, Alban Lenoir, Fred Testot
Votes: 401
15. Jack (1977)
119 min | Drama
Jack, a bohemian in Stockholm with writer and musician dreams and his wild life with friends in Stockholm and on Gotland in 1970's - early years
Director: Jan Halldoff | Stars: Göran Stangertz, Kjell Bergqvist, Örjan Ramberg, Ingalill Rydberg
Votes: 521
16. Ánimas (2018)
TV-MA | 83 min | Horror, Thriller
This time, horror comes fron the other side.
Directors: Laura Alvea, José Ortuño | Stars: Clare Durant, Iván Pellicer, Luis Bermejo, Liz Lobato
Votes: 1,522
17. Crucible of Horror (1971)
R | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A mother and daughter hatch a scheme to murder their family's domineering and sadistic patriarch.
Director: Viktors Ritelis | Stars: Michael Gough, Yvonne Mitchell, Sharon Gurney, Simon Gough
Votes: 1,143
18. North Sea is Dead Sea (1976)
87 min | Drama
Two 14-year-old boys try to escape their oppressive home in a working-class suburb of Hamburg, first by taking a homemade raft and later a stolen sailboat down the Elbe towards the open sea.
Director: Hark Bohm | Stars: Dschingis Bowakow, Uwe Bohm, Marquard Bohm, Herma Koehn
Votes: 458
19. Daughter of Deceit (1951)
78 min | Comedy, Drama
After discovering he's being cheated on by his wife María, Quintin kicks her out of the house. Upon leaving, his wife confesses that their daughter Martha is actually not Quintin'd daughter... See full summary »
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Fernando Soler, Alicia Caro, Fernando Soto, Rubén Rojo
Votes: 752
20. Brutal Glory (1989 Video)
111 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
The highly fictionalized making and breaking of Norman Selby, more recognizable as Kid McCoy, the real life American middleweight world boxing champion from the turn of the 20th century.
Director: Koos Roets | Stars: Robert Vaughn, Leah Pinsent, Timothy Brantley, James Ryan
Votes: 90
21. 'A Santanotte (1922)
60 min | Drama, Romance
Nanninella, a young girl, is exploited and abused by her father, whom she maintains with her waitress salary.
Director: Elvira Notari | Stars: Eduardo Notari, Rosè Angione, Antonio Palmieri, Elisa Cava
Votes: 101
22. Finsteres Glück (2016)
113 min | Drama
Psychologist Eliane Hess loses her objectivity and becomes personally involved with a traumatized 8-year-old boy, who has lost his parents in a car crash.
Director: Stefan Haupt | Stars: Eleni Haupt, Noé Ricklin, Elisa Plüss, Chiara Carla Bär
Votes: 104
23. Biuti quin Olivia (2002)
Drama
A family from the wrong side of the tracks moves to Rome. 16-year-old Olivia has a hard time making friends in her new school but eventually teams up with Lilli, a great fan of the film "Grease" and its star Olivia Newton-John.
Director: Federica Martino | Stars: Carolina Felline, Manrico Gammarota, Elena Bonelli, Pia Engleberth
Votes: 28
24. Nordstrand (2013)
89 min | Drama
NORDSTRAND tells the story of two brothers, Marten and Volker, who meet in their parents' now empty house on the coast. Older brother Marten would like to pick up together their mother from... See full summary »
Director: Florian Eichinger | Stars: Lennart Bartels, Luise Berndt, William Boer, Martina Krauel
Votes: 177
25. Rockabilly Requiem (2016)
90 min | Drama
West Germany, 1982: Hubertus and Sebastian are fighting for their future against their fathers. Their unconditional love for Punk Princess Debbie and the raw power of Alternative Rockabilly... See full summary »
Director: Till Müller-Edenborn | Stars: Sebastian Tiede, Ruby O. Fee, Ben Münchow, Jeremias Koschorz
Votes: 72
26. Pigs Will Fly (2002)
98 min | Drama
A man struggles with memories of his violent childhood.
Director: Eoin Moore | Stars: Andreas Schmidt, Laura Tonke, Thomas Morris, Kirsten Block
Votes: 134
27. Our Father... (1993)
88 min | Drama
Young sailor Juhani returns to his childhood home, an abandoned farm in the Finnish countryside. He takes his old senile father out of the local nursing home and brings him back to see the ... See full summary »
Director: Veikko Aaltonen | Stars: Hannu Kivioja, Martti Katajisto, Elina Hurme, Heikki Kujanpää
Votes: 188
28. Ombra e il poeta (2017)
105 min | Musical, Thriller
The story is a psycho-drama full of turns of events right from the opening scene and well after the credits. Icaro, a man in his late thirties with a wife and a child he loves and a safe ... See full summary »
Director: Gianni Caminiti | Stars: Gianni Caminiti, Daniela Monico, Luca Salmaso, Massimo Vinci
Votes: 47
30. The Abused (2008)
13 min | Short, Drama
A boy grows up in a violent household and witnesses his father kill his mother. He grows up to be an obsessive, damaged adult and continues the cycle of violence.
Director: Philip Granger | Stars: Kendall Ian Kay, Jeff Meszaros, Rachelle Weik, Morad Aytour
31.
Miracles (2003)
Episode:
The Bone Scatterer
(2003)
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A young man in a small town who dreams he is killing people and when he wakes up they are dead, seeks the help of the group.
Director: Terrence O'Hara | Stars: Skeet Ulrich, Angus Macfadyen, Marisa Ramirez, Christa Nelson George
Votes: 59
32.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
Billy
(1979)
79 min | Comedy, Drama
Four-year-old Billy lives with an abusive father in a terrible home situation. But can anything be done to change this?
Director: Charles Stewart | Stars: Jason Plenderleith, Leigh Medcraft, Terry Andrews, Cindy O'Callaghan
Votes: 12
33.
Very Scary People (2019– )
Episode:
The Night Stalker, Part 2: I Will Be Avenged
(2020)
TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary, Crime, History
A tip from a teenage boy leads to the identity of the Night Stalker and twenty-four hours later a mob of angry citizens track him down and capture him.
Director: Brett Kelly | Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Glynn Martin, Cliff Linedecker, Casey Jordan
Votes: 29
34.
Dexter (2006–2013)
Episode:
Hungry Man
(2009)
TV-MA | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Dexter learns more about Arthur's bizarre and twisted world, while Rita has her hands full preparing Thanksgiving dinner for a full house, Debra uses the holiday to further investigate Trinity, and Batista gets closure on an old case.
Director: John Dahl | Stars: Michael C. Hall, Julie Benz, Jennifer Carpenter, Desmond Harrington
Votes: 6,943
35.
Very Scary People (2019– )
Episode:
The Amityville Horror: Murdered One by One Pt. 1
(2021)
TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary, Crime, History
It was the crime that inspired the legend of the Amityville horror. In November 1974, six members of the DeFeo family were found murdered inside their beautiful seaside home.
Director: Brett Kelly | Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Harvey Aronson, Paula Uruburu, Daniel Genis
Votes: 22
36.
Very Scary People (2019– )
Episode:
The Iceman: Trapping a Serial Killer Pt. 2
(2021)
TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary, Crime, History
For many years, the Iceman--Richard Kuklinski--had literally gotten away with murder, but now investigators were on to him.
Director: Brett Kelly | Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Dominick Polifrone, Jay Dobyns, Bill Sanderson
Votes: 20
37.
History's Greatest Mysteries (2020– )
Episode:
The Amityville Horror
(2022)
TV-PG | Documentary, History, Mystery
After a series of dark events, an unassuming family home on Long Island becomes the most notorious house in America.
Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Laura DiDio, Anthony Holmes, Jason Horton
Votes: 60
38.
Mobsters (1997–2012)
Episode:
The Iceman: Richard Kuklinski
(2012)
Documentary
Richard Kuklinski lived a shocking double life; suburban husband and father at home, and brutal contract killer on the streets.
Stars: Robert J. Carroll, Anthony Bruno, Barbara Kuklinski, Dominick Polifrone
Votes: 8
39.
World's Most Evil Killers (2017– )
Episode:
Richard Kuklinski
(2023)
Documentary, Crime
For Richard Kuklinski, crime was his way of life. As a mafia hit men, his unusual methods led to a disturbing nickname: The Iceman.
Stars: Richard Kuklinski, Robert J. Carroll, Dominick Polifrone, Jennifer Sutton
40.
Myra Hindley: The Untold Story (2013– )
Episode:
The Brady Factor
(2013)
Documentary, Crime
Director: Robin Anderson | Stars: Tom Roberts, Gemma Lawman, Haydn Holden, Madison Hasford
41.
Merlí (2015–2018)
Episode:
Schopenhauer
(2015)
TV-MA | 45 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Berta acts out in class. Mònica invites Gerard to her home to work on a class assignment together. Gina learns Merlí has been seeing Laia.
Directors: Eduard Cortés, Menna Fité | Stars: Francesc Orella, David Solans, Pau Durà, Pere Ponce
Votes: 200
42.
MenT (2012– )
Episode:
Tahle hra vám znicí zivot
(2017)
27 min | Comedy, Game-Show, Reality-TV