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1. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Approved | 129 min | Crime, Drama
Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a Black man against an undeserved rape charge, and tries to educate his young children against prejudice.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy
Votes: 333,405
2. The Intruder (1962)
PG-13 | 84 min | Drama
A charismatic "social reformer" rallies the white populace of a Southern town to oppose school integration, but he soon finds himself in a situation that he cannot control.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: William Shatner, Frank Maxwell, Beverly Lunsford, Robert Emhardt
Votes: 3,984
3. The Dressmaker (I) (2015)
R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
A glamorous woman returns to her small town in rural Australia. With her sewing machine and haute couture style, she transforms the women and exacts sweet revenge on those who did her wrong.
Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse | Stars: Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving
Votes: 65,733 | Gross: $2.02M
4. The Last Seduction (1994)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A devious sexpot steals her husband's drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.
Director: John Dahl | Stars: Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman, Michael Raysses
Votes: 25,877 | Gross: $6.14M
5. The Crush (1993)
R | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A journalist becomes the unwanted center of attention for a 14-year-old girl, who proceeds to sabotage his life after he refuses her sexual advances.
Director: Alan Shapiro | Stars: Cary Elwes, Alicia Silverstone, Jennifer Rubin, Kurtwood Smith
Votes: 22,381 | Gross: $13.61M
6. Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981)
R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An orphaned teenager finds himself being dominated by his aunt who's hell-bent on keeping him with her...at all costs.
Director: William Asher | Stars: Jimmy McNichol, Susan Tyrrell, Bo Svenson, Marcia Lewis
Votes: 4,885
7. Dark Places (2015)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Libby Day was only eight years old when her family was brutally murdered in their rural Kansas farmhouse. Almost thirty years later, she reluctantly agrees to revisit the crime and uncovers the wrenching truths that led up to that tragic night.
Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner | Stars: Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Christina Hendricks, Chloë Grace Moretz
Votes: 47,840
8. If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
R | 119 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman embraces her pregnancy while she and her family set out to prove her childhood friend and lover innocent of a crime he didn't commit.
Director: Barry Jenkins | Stars: KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King, Teyonah Parris
Votes: 52,594 | Gross: $14.92M
9. Prizzi's Honor (1985)
R | 130 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two professional assassins fall in love.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Robert Loggia, John Randolph
Votes: 26,456 | Gross: $26.70M
10. Red Road (2006)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Jackie works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again. Now she has no choice, she is compelled to confront him.
Director: Andrea Arnold | Stars: Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Compston, Natalie Press
Votes: 13,656 | Gross: $0.15M
11. The Wild One (1953)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Two rival motorcycle gangs terrorize a small town after one of their leaders is thrown in jail.
Director: Laslo Benedek | Stars: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith, Lee Marvin
Votes: 17,650
12. Marshall (2017)
PG-13 | 118 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Thurgood Marshall, the crusading lawyer who would become the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.
Director: Reginald Hudlin | Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Sterling K. Brown
Votes: 26,862 | Gross: $10.05M
13. Broken (IV) (2012)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance
Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.
Director: Rufus Norris | Stars: Charlie Booty, Lily James, Tim Roth, Eloise Laurence
Votes: 15,036
14. Department Q: The Absent One (2014)
Not Rated | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The murder of young twins initially implicates a group of upper class students as the killers, though the case takes a turn or two from its starting point.
Director: Mikkel Nørgaard | Stars: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pilou Asbæk, David Dencik
Votes: 26,257
15. Raajneeti (2010)
Not Rated | 163 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Samar, the son of a political family, plans to go to the USA to live with his girlfriend. However, the death of his father makes him stop and enter the dirty world of politics.
Director: Prakash Jha | Stars: Ajay Devgn, Ranbir Kapoor, Nana Patekar, Katrina Kaif
Votes: 18,967 | Gross: $1.44M
16. One Deadly Summer (1983)
R | 133 min | Drama, Mystery
A young woman who oozes sensuality arrives in a small town and marries the local mechanic. Was it love at first sight? What links her enigmatic presence to the family's piano? Is it curiosity or is it something far more sinister?
Director: Jean Becker | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, Suzanne Flon, Jenny Clève
Votes: 5,376
17. Child of God (2013)
R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A dispossessed, violent man's disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order.
Director: James Franco | Stars: Scott Haze, Tim Blake Nelson, Jim Parrack, Steve Hunter
Votes: 4,401 | Gross: $0.04M
18. Blame (I) (2017)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A drama teacher's taboo relationship with an unstable student strikes a nerve in her jealous classmate, sparking a vengeful chain of events within their suburban high school that draws parallels to 'The Crucible'.
Director: Quinn Shephard | Stars: Quinn Shephard, Marcia DeBonis, Elizabeth Howell, Carlyle Owens
Votes: 3,256
19. Super 30 (2019)
Not Rated | 154 min | Biography, Drama
Based on the life of Patna-based mathematician Anand Kumar who runs the famed Super 30 program for IIT aspirants in Patna.
Director: Vikas Bahl | Stars: Hrithik Roshan, Mrunal Thakur, Nandish Singh Sandhu, Veerendra Saxena
Votes: 37,118 | Gross: $2.27M
20. Sunset (1988)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell, Mariel Hemingway
Votes: 4,634 | Gross: $4.59M
21. Agneepath (2012)
Not Rated | 174 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young boy's father is lynched before his eyes; fifteen years later he returns home for revenge.
Director: Karan Malhotra | Stars: Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Sanjay Dutt, Rishi Kapoor
Votes: 26,929 | Gross: $1.98M
22. The Young Seducers (1971)
R | 79 min | Comedy
The budding sexual urges of young women cause themselves and others trouble.
Director: Erwin C. Dietrich | Stars: Ingrid Steeger, Melitta Tegeler, Evelyne Traeger, Rena Bergen
Votes: 305
23. Emperor (2020)
PG-13 | 99 min | Biography, Drama, History
An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.
Director: Mark Amin | Stars: James Cromwell, Bruce Dern, Mykelti Williamson, Paul Scheer
Votes: 1,548
24. Virumandi (2004)
Not Rated | 175 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A temperamental farmer gets embroiled in a bloody clan feud in a southern Tamil Nadu village.
Director: Kamal Haasan | Stars: Kamal Haasan, Abhirami, Pasupathy, Napolean
Votes: 7,801
25. The Fixer (1968)
M | 132 min | Drama
In Czarist Russia, around 1911, a Russian-Jewish handyman, Yakov Bok (Sir Alan Bates), is wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith
Votes: 1,471
26. Mademoiselle (1966)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
Residents of a small French town are quick to accuse Manou of arson because he seduced most of the town's women. No one suspects the real culprit, a woman committing random crimes, all in an attempt to draw Manou's attention to herself.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Ettore Manni, Umberto Orsini, Keith Skinner
Votes: 1,639
27. Why Don't You Just Die! (2018)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Andrei, a detective and the world's most horrible father, brings together a terrible group of people in his apartment: his resentful actress daughter, an angry thug, and a cheated cop. Each one of them has a reason to want revenge..
Director: Kirill Sokolov | Stars: Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Vitaliy Khaev, Evgeniya Kregzhde, Michael Gor
Votes: 5,314
28. Slow Burn (2005)
R | 93 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A district attorney is involved in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader and is, at the same time, being manipulated by an attractive assistant district attorney and a cryptic stranger.
Director: Wayne Beach | Stars: Ray Liotta, Jolene Blalock, LL Cool J, Mekhi Phifer
Votes: 4,215 | Gross: $1.24M
29. A Young Emmanuelle (1976)
103 min | Drama
In Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year old Sibylle Ashby shoplifting. She brags about her writing, so he challenges her to produce a book. She writes ... See full summary »
Director: Nelly Kaplan | Stars: Sami Frey, Ann Zacharias, Françoise Brion, Micheline Presle
Votes: 336
30. The Woman in White (1997 TV Movie)
Unrated | 125 min | Mystery, Thriller
The gothic tale of a pair of half-sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white.
Director: Tim Fywell | Stars: Tara Fitzgerald, Justine Waddell, Andrew Lincoln, Susan Vidler
Votes: 1,230
31. Girl and the Wooden Horse Torture (1982)
68 min | Thriller
Nami is a masochistic high school student who is attacked and almost raped by a gang of hoodlums before being rescued by handsome teacher Muraki. The near-miss triggers bizarre ... See full summary »
Director: Fumihiko Katô | Stars: Serina Nishikawa, Shirô Shimomoto, Asami Ogawa, Hideo Shirayama
Votes: 170
32. The Young One (1960)
96 min | Drama
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Key Meersman, Crahan Denton
Votes: 3,075
33. Oleanna (1994)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Thriller
When a student visits her professor to discuss how she failed his course, the discussion takes an awkward turn.
Director: David Mamet | Stars: William H. Macy, Debra Eisenstadt, Diego Pineda, Scott Zigler
Votes: 3,622 | Gross: $0.12M
34. In Dark Places (1997)
R | 96 min | Drama, Thriller
Chapelle, a sexy and mysterious painter, uses the art of seduction to pit her half-brother and his best friend against each other in an act of revenge against her abusive father. A dangerous love triangle ensues.
Director: James C.E. Burke | Stars: Joan Severance, Bryan Kestner, John Vargas, Suzanne Turner
Votes: 233
35. Heavens Fall (2006)
PG-13 | 105 min | Crime, Drama
Two young women accuse nine black youths of rape in the segregated South.
Director: Terry Green | Stars: Timothy Hutton, David Strathairn, Leelee Sobieski, Anthony Mackie
Votes: 1,466
36. Hothead (1979)
89 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
The miserable football player becomes a town hero after bringing victory in extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge to the team star for the previous mockeries.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Patrick Dewaere, France Dougnac, Dorothée Jemma, Maurice Barrier
Votes: 2,260
37. The Saviour (1971)
105 min | Drama, War
In 1943, rural French teenager Nanette meets an injured British airman and decides to give him shelter at her family's farm after falling in-love with him.
Director: Michel Mardore | Stars: Horst Buchholz, Muriel Catalá, Hélène Vallier, Roger Lumont
Votes: 279
38. The Affair (1995 TV Movie)
R | 105 min | Drama, Romance
A love story, set amongst the beginnings of the integration of Negro soldiers from America to England during World War II. A tragic tale of war, love, desire and injustice.
Director: Paul Seed | Stars: Courtney B. Vance, Kerry Fox, Leland Gantt, Ned Beatty
Votes: 438
39. Koritsia ston ilio (1968)
80 min | Drama, Romance
A shepherd falls in love with an English tourist in Greece.
Director: Vasilis Georgiadis | Stars: Giannis Voglis, Anne Lonnberg, Kostas Bakas, Miranta Myrat
Votes: 634
40. Pups (1999)
R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Rebellious teenager Stevie finds his mother's gun, and along with his girlfriend impulsively decides to rob a bank. The pair find themselves in over their heads as they take hostages and the FBI negotiates Stevie's absurd demands.
Director: Ash Baron-Cohen | Stars: Mischa Barton, Cameron Van Hoy, Burt Reynolds, Adam Farrar
Votes: 1,808 | Gross: $0.00M
41. Jis Desh Mein Ganga Rehta Hain (2000)
141 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Gangaram alias Ganga has been raised by his foster parents who reside in the village thus he gets accustom to village life. 24 years later his birth parents multi-millionaire Avinash and ... See full summary »
Director: Mahesh Manjrekar | Stars: Govinda, Sonali Bendre, Rinke Khanna, Milind Gunaji
Votes: 1,383
42. Female Teacher Hunting (1982)
66 min | Drama
A high-school student and her boyfriend go skinny-dipping on a warm night. Soon the boy is being accused of committing a violent sexual assault on the girl. Enraged, he knocks down a female... See full summary »
Director: Junichi Suzuki | Stars: Yuki Kazamatsuri, Kyoko Ito, Yôko Azusa, Hajime Ishigami
Votes: 75
43. Gross Misconduct (1993)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Thriller
A female student falsely accuses a male professor of rape.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Naomi Watts, Jimmy Smits, Sarah Chadwick, Adrian Wright
Votes: 492
44. Lovesick: Sick Love (2004)
R | 94 min | Crime, Horror
O'Ryan loves Julia. Julia loves Istvan. Istvan loves Julia. Julia falls in love with O'Ryan. Julia falls out of love and ends up hating O'Ryan. O'Ryan hates Istvan. Istvan hates O'Ryan. O'Ryan hates his mother. His mother hates everyone!
Director: Wolfgang Büld | Stars: Fiona Horsey, Paul Conway, William Rowsey, Jessica Barnes
Votes: 401
45. 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: 1,818
46. Allah-Rakha (1986)
160 min | Action, Drama
Karim Khan is employed as driver for a gangster named Don, who has an accident with his car, and asks Karim to take the blame for it for a hefty sum of cash, which Karim does so, and is ... See full summary »
Director: Ketan Desai | Stars: Jackie Shroff, Shammi Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman, Biswajeet Chatterjee
Votes: 181
47. Vishwatma (1992)
174 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A cop and a criminal, both on their respective missions of duty and revenge, go from India to Kenya in order to extradite a reclusive crime lord to India.
Director: Rajiv Rai | Stars: Naseeruddin Shah, Sunny Deol, Chunky Pandey, Sonam
Votes: 1,503
48. Boss (I) (2013)
Not Rated | 143 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
After his younger son falls prey to a corrupt police officer, an honest old man summons his estranged elder son to save the day.
Director: Anthony D'Souza | Stars: Akshay Kumar, Shiv Panditt, Mithun Chakraborty, Ronit Roy
Votes: 11,879
49. Blood & Orchids (1986 TV Movie)
240 min | Drama
Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and taken to the hospital. Some of the men didn't want to get involved, fearing they might ... See full summary »
Director: Jerry Thorpe | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Jane Alexander, Sean Young, José Ferrer
Votes: 278
50. Skyskraber (2011)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A blind girl living in a claustrophobic village that missed its chance at greatness tries to lose her virginity to a shy boy with a guilty conscience.
Director: Rune Schjøtt | Stars: Lukas Schwarz Thorsteinsson, Marta Holm Peschcke-Køedt, Lucas Schultz, Morten Suurballe
Votes: 480