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51. Le chemin du serpent
Crime, Drama, Thriller | Post-production
A mysterious woman team up with a man whose daughter was killed and who is now seeking revenge. Together they kidnap members of an organization and torture them to find out what really happened.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Kô Shibasaki, Damien Bonnard
52. The Ghost Train (1941)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Horror
High jinks and chills ensue when a group of people become stranded at an isolated station and a legendary phantom train approaches.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Kathleen Harrison, Peter Murray-Hill
Votes: 1,665
53. VIrgin People III (2002)
114 min | Drama
Director: Celso Ad. Castillo | Stars: Barbara Milano, Allona Amor, Monina Perez, Celso Ad. Castillo
Votes: 52
54. Destry (1954)
Approved | 95 min | Western
A dishonest mayor and powerful criminal dominate a small western town. But when the town's sheriff dies under mysterious circumstances, Tom Destry, son of a famed gunman, is called in to put an end to the corruption.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Lyle Bettger, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 1,639
55. Distant Drums (1951)
Approved | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After destroying a Seminole fort, American soldiers and their rescued companions must face the dangerous Everglades and hostile Indians in order to reach safety.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Gary Cooper, Mari Aldon, Richard Webb, Ray Teal
Votes: 2,379
56. The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
William Pittman Priest has to use all his wiles to retain his position as judge in his Kentucky hometown, while continuing to be a voice for the town's underclass and for democratic values.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Charles Winninger, Arleen Whelan, John Russell, Stepin Fetchit
Votes: 1,819
57. The Bat Whispers (1930)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A master criminal terrorizes the occupants of an isolated country mansion.
Director: Roland West | Stars: Chester Morris, Una Merkel, William Bakewell, Grayce Hampton
Votes: 1,151
58. Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (1998)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
Billy is a gay fine-arts photographer who falls in love with straight coffee-shop waiter Gabriel.
Director: Tommy O'Haver | Stars: Sean Hayes, Brad Rowe, Armando Valdes-Kennedy, Mr. Dan
Votes: 3,992 | Gross: $2.02M
59. Game of Seduction (1976)
89 min | Drama
Charles is wealthy, a French venture capitalist in the 1830s; he's also an aristocratic assassin, prompting duels for political, monetary, and sexual gain. At his aunt's, he meets Madame ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Vadim | Stars: Sylvia Kristel, Nathalie Delon, Jon Finch, Gisèle Casadesus
Votes: 187
60. That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy
A psychoanalyst causes a woman to doubt her happy marriage.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, Burgess Meredith, Alan Mowbray
Votes: 2,999
61. Once a Thief (1996 TV Movie)
R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A couple working for the triad boss Tang decides to leave/flee the triad and Hong Kong. They meet again in Vancouver 1.5 years later fighting crime. She now has a fiance. The Tang triad comes to Vancouver to do weapons "business".
Director: John Woo | Stars: Sandrine Holt, Ivan Sergei, Nicholas Lea, Robert Ito
Votes: 1,802
62. Frankenstein Island (1981)
PG | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When a hot-air balloon crashes on a remote island, the crew discovers Dr. Frankenstein's ancestor carrying on the family work, along with a race of mutants and a population of Amazons.
Director: Jerry Warren | Stars: Robert Clarke, Steve Brodie, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Christopher
Votes: 1,303
63. Jesus Henry Christ (2011)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy
At the age of ten, Henry James Herman, a boy who was conceived in a petri-dish and raised by his feminist mother, follows a string of Post-It notes in hopes of finding his biological father.
Director: Dennis Lee | Stars: Jason Spevack, Toni Collette, Michael Sheen, Samantha Weinstein
Votes: 6,306 | Gross: $0.02M
64. Last Letter (I) (2020)
120 min | Romance
It is only at their sister's and mother's funeral when a woman meets her niece after many years. The niece is now a grown girl. The sister takes on the task of informing the deceased's ... See full summary »
Director: Shunji Iwai | Stars: Hideaki Anno, Masaharu Fukuyama, Suzu Hirose, Ryunosuke Kamiki
Votes: 1,317
65. The Plank (1979 TV Movie)
28 min | Comedy
This is a pantomime about two construction workers, who discover that a plank is missing from the floor they are just building. They discover that two children have taken the plank and use ... See full summary »
Director: Eric Sykes | Stars: Eric Sykes, Arthur Lowe, Lionel Blair, Henry Cooper
Votes: 707
66. Lydia (1941)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, Romance
Four friends reminisce in old age. Each of the men had been in love with the main character, Lydia. The interweaving stories reveal the reason why she never married any of them and, indeed, never married at all.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Merle Oberon, Joseph Cotten, Edna May Oliver, Alan Marshal
Votes: 889
67. Riding High (1950)
Passed | 112 min | Comedy
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Bing Crosby, Coleen Gray, Charles Bickford, Frances Gifford
Votes: 597
68. Poove Poochudava (1985)
130 min | Drama
An elderly woman who is rich lives alone in a town. However, her life changes for the better when her granddaughter comes to live with her.
Director: Fazil | Stars: Anand, Girdar, Jaishankar, Nadia Moidu
Votes: 151
69. Mary (1931)
78 min | Mystery, Thriller
A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Alfred Abel, Olga Tschechowa, Paul Graetz, Lotte Stein
Votes: 997
70. A Royal Scandal (1945)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In 18th century Russia, the naive and idealistic lieutenant Chernov meets Empress Catherine the Great who becomes infatuated with him and appoints him Chief of the Imperial Guard.
Directors: Otto Preminger, Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter, William Eythe
Votes: 1,220
71. I Accuse (1938)
95 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A traumatized World War I veteran builds a machine to prevent war. When the government subverts his machine and a second world war seems increasingly inevitable, in desperation the inventor summons the ghosts of the war dead to protest.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Victor Francen, Line Noro, Sylvie Gance, Marcel Delaître
Votes: 665
72. The Rickshaw Man (1958)
103 min | Drama
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Chishû Ryû
Votes: 1,183
73. Storm Over the Nile (1955)
Approved | 107 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A CinemaScope remake of The Four Feathers (1939).
Directors: Zoltan Korda, Terence Young | Stars: Anthony Steel, Laurence Harvey, James Robertson Justice, Mary Ure
Votes: 620
74. Poil de carotte (1932)
91 min | Drama, Family
A red-haired boy is his mother's punching bag ; only his father's presence is a great comfort to him,but this weak man is under the shrew's thumb. His pain is so great he feels suicidal.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Harry Baur, Robert Lynen, Louis Gauthier, Simone Aubry
Votes: 752
75. Just One Time (II) (1998)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When the fiancée of a fireman reluctantly agrees to participate in a ménage-a-trois with another woman, she does so on the condition that he reciprocate the favor with another man. This ultimately puts their impending marriage in jeopardy.
Director: Lane Janger | Stars: Lane Janger, Joelle Carter, Guillermo Diaz, Jennifer Esposito
Votes: 788 | Gross: $0.02M
76. The Squaw Man (1931)
Passed | 107 min | Drama, Western
Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry. In Wyoming, Wyngate runs afoul of ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Warner Baxter, Lupe Velez, Eleanor Boardman, Charles Bickford
Votes: 422
77. Virgin People 2 (1996)
116 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Celso Ad. Castillo | Stars: Sunshine Cruz, Sharmaine Suarez, Ana Capri, Tonton Gutierrez
Votes: 57
78. Arangetra Velai (1990)
154 min | Comedy, Thriller
Three unemployed people - two men and one woman - find the answer to their money problems when they receive a call from a kidnapper through a cross connection.
Director: Fazil | Stars: Prabhu, Revathi, V.K. Ramasamy, Janakaraj
Votes: 215
79. Savage Pampas (1965)
Not Rated | 112 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
In the late 1800s, an army captain tries to tame the open plains of Argentina, which are dominated by Indians and bandits. To help do this, the captain brings in a party of women to keep his soldiers happy.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Robert Taylor, Mario Lozano, Felicia Roc, Ángel del Pozo
Votes: 425
80. The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957)
Approved | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History
Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna
Votes: 568
81. The Burmese Harp (1985)
133 min | Drama, War
After becoming separated from his platoon, a Japanese soldier dons a Buddhist monk's robe and tends to the bodies of the many war casualties strewn across the countryside.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Kôji Ishizaka, Kiichi Nakai, Takuzô Kawatani, Atsushi Watanabe
Votes: 196
82. Perazhagan (2004)
Not Rated | 143 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Chinna, a hunchbacked phone booth operator, loves a blind street dancer and wants to help her regain her sight. Kartik, his lookalike, is a constable in love with the commissioner's daughter.
Director: Sasi Shankar | Stars: Suriya, Jyotika, Vivek, Aachi Manorama
Votes: 1,647
83. Tenkôsei: Sayonara anata (2007)
120 min | Drama
A Japanese boy and girl meet again at 15 at school after many years apart. They magically switch bodies. They are forced to switch lives as well.
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Misako Renbutsu, Naoyuki Morita, Takuro Atsuki, Hiroshi
Votes: 313
84. Inugami-ke no ichizoku (2006)
134 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A web of deceit, adultery and greed manifests in Kon Ichikawa's remake of his own 1976 hit about a murder investigation that reveals years of hidden skeletons and a shocking family secret.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Kôji Ishizaka, Nanako Matsushima, Kikunosuke Onoe, Sumiko Fuji
Votes: 423
85. Outside the Law (1930)
Passed | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Fingers is planning a half-million-dollar bank robbery in gang boss Cobra Collins' territory. Fingers' moll Connie tries to bluff Cobra into thinking the hit won't be for another week when the call comes through saying it's now.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Mary Nolan, Edward G. Robinson, Owen Moore, Rockliffe Fellowes
Votes: 227
86. Wives Under Suspicion (1938)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A prosecutor trying a case where a husband shot his adulterous wife begins to suspect that his own wife is having an affair, and starts to have his own thoughts about killing her.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Warren William, Gail Patrick, Ralph Morgan, William Lundigan
Votes: 534
87. Road to Paradise (1930)
TV-G | 74 min | Drama
A young woman falls in with a gang of criminals, and when they rob a wealthy socialite's house, she finds her long-lost twin sister.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Loretta Young, Jack Mulhall, Raymond Hatton, George Barraud
Votes: 265
88. The Bros. (2007)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Music
This outrageously hysterical urban comedy follows the lives and crimes of two wannabe white boys as they try to break into the world of hardcore "gangsta" rap.
Director: Jonathan Figg | Stars: John Tindall, Joachim Wiese, Joey Fatone, Dennis Scott
Votes: 259
89. Poovizhi Vasalile (1987)
153 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A man, depressed by the death of his family, adopts a boy with hearing and speech difficulty and names him after his dead son. The boy, who has seen the killers of his widowed mother, is in danger.
Director: Fazil | Stars: Raghuvaran, Ranjith, Sathyaraj, Sujitha
Votes: 201
90. The Torch (1950)
Passed | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A revolutionary and his band take over a small Mexican town. The townspeople begin to take sides over whether to fight him, join forces with him or just try to get along with him.
Director: Emilio Fernández | Stars: Paulette Goddard, Pedro Armendáriz, Gilbert Roland, Walter Reed
Votes: 230
91. Seenu (1999)
Romance
A country man comes to city to meet his friends and with ego, he pretends as a dumb person for the sake of friendship with his girlfriend.
Director: Sashi | Stars: Venkatesh Daggubati, Twinkle Khanna, Prakash Raj, Brahmanandam
Votes: 250
92. The Battle of the Sexes (1928)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy
Gum-chewing frizzy-haired gold-digger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly, middle-aged real estate tycoon, William Judson. Marie ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Jean Hersholt, Phyllis Haver, Belle Bennett, Sally O'Neil
Votes: 516
93. Águilas no cazan moscas (1994)
110 min | Comedy
An army cadet returns to his home village in order to find out what had happened years ago between his father and the schoolmaster.
Director: Sergio Cabrera | Stars: Frank Ramírez, Humberto Dorado, Florina Lemaitre, Ángelo Javier Lozano
Votes: 74
94. Allá en el Rancho Grande (1949)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Director: Fernando de Fuentes | Stars: Jorge Negrete, Lilia del Valle, Eduardo Noriega, Armando Soto La Marina
Votes: 109
95. Swarg Narak (1978)
Not Rated | 164 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Our story has three married couples: One couple, who are happily married, are Tripathi (Sanjeev Kumar) and his wife Mary; the second couple are Geeta (Shabana Azmi) and Vinod (Vinod Mehra),... See full summary »
Director: Dasari Narayana Rao | Stars: Sanjeev Kumar, Jeetendra, Vinod Mehra, Moushumi Chatterjee
Votes: 81
96. The Squaw Man (1918)
60 min | Drama, Western
Captain Wynnegate leaves England, accepting the blame for embezzling charity funds though knowing that his cousin Sir Henry is guilty. Out West he and the Indian girl Nat-U-Rich save each ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Elliott Dexter, Ann Little, Katherine MacDonald, Theodore Roberts
Votes: 45 | Gross: $0.62M
97. En Bommukutty Ammavukku (1988)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama
A couple (Suhasini & Sathyaraj) who lost their daughter in an accident decides to adopt a girl from the local orphanage. But problems arise when the child's real Mother (Rekha) & Father (Raghuvaran) seeks to find her.
Director: Fazil | Stars: Raghuvaran, Sathyaraj, Suhasini
Votes: 95
98. Three Musketeers (1932)
246 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Young d'Artagnan leaves Gascony for Paris where he hopes to become a Musketeer of the Guard. He does meet three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, but totally by chance and for... a ... See full summary »
Director: Henri Diamant-Berger | Stars: Blanche Montel, Aimé Simon-Girard, Edith Méra, Henri Rollan
Votes: 68
99. Aradhana (1987)
141 min | Musical, Romance
An illiterate thug is inspired to change his ways when he meets a pretty schoolteacher.
Director: Bharathiraja | Stars: Chiranjeevi, Suhasini, Radhika Sarathkumar, Kongara Jaggaiah
Votes: 130
100. Los caballeros del Botón de Ancla (1974)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Ramón Torrado | Stars: Peter Lee Lawrence, Maribel Martín, Alfredo Mayo, Ramón Pons
Votes: 20