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1. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
Director: Charles Laughton | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason
Votes: 97,797 | Gross: $0.65M
2. Short Term 12 (2013)
R | 96 min | Drama
A 20-something supervising staff member of a residential treatment facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend.
Director: Destin Daniel Cretton | Stars: Brie Larson, Frantz Turner, John Gallagher Jr., Kaitlyn Dever
Votes: 91,964 | Gross: $1.01M
3. Flower (I) (2017)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
A sexually curious teen forms an unorthodox kinship with her mentally unstable stepbrother.
Director: Max Winkler | Stars: Zoey Deutch, Kathryn Hahn, Tim Heidecker, Adam Scott
Votes: 10,461 | Gross: $0.33M
4. Wedding Daze (2006)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
A guy proposes to his girlfriend, who drops dead. His BFF tries to get him to date other women but he only talks about his dead big love. At a diner he proposes to a cute waitress just to get his BFF off his back. She says yes.
Director: Michael Ian Black | Stars: Jason Biggs, Isla Fisher, Michael Weston, Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Votes: 17,415
5. Carne (1991)
40 min | Short, Crime, Drama
After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.
Director: Gaspar Noé | Stars: Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain, Marie Berto
Votes: 7,866
6. Storm Rider (2013)
PG | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
When her father is put into jail, the spoiled teenager Dani loses everything. Forced to live with her uncle Sam on a farm without horses to ride and to train a sad Dani takes care of a young mule and learns what really counts.
Director: Craig Clyde | Stars: Kevin Sorbo, Kristy Swanson, Danielle C. Ryan, Jacob Buster
Votes: 1,312
7. American Girl (2002)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A pregnant teenager is determined to leave her trailer park home with the hope of living a happy family life.
Director: Jordan Brady | Stars: Jena Malone, Harmony Blossom, Erik von Detten, Brad Renfro
Votes: 1,467
8. All My Sons (1948)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Film-Noir
During WW2, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever but years later his sin comes back to haunt him when Joe's son plans to marry Deever's daughter.
Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians, Louisa Horton
Votes: 2,425
9. L'Ouragan F.Y.T. (2023)
110 min | Drama
-Montreal (in Canada), 1991. Eleven year old Delphis grew up in a poor neighborhood and an unstable family environment. One night he decides to take control of his life and becomes ... See full summary »
Director: Ara Ball | Stars: Justin Labelle, Nico Racicot, Larissa Corriveau, Joanie Guérin
Votes: 19
10. George Washington (2000)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
A group of children, in a depressed small town, band together to cover up a tragic mistake one summer.
Director: David Gordon Green | Stars: Candace Evanofski, Donald Holden, Damian Jewan Lee, Curtis Cotton III
Votes: 8,679 | Gross: $0.24M
11. Hollow in the Land (2017)
92 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A woman with a troubled past sets out to find her missing brother.
Director: Scooter Corkle | Stars: Dianna Agron, Shawn Ashmore, Rachelle Lefevre, Michael J Rogers
Votes: 1,991
12. The Last American Hero (1973)
PG | 95 min | Drama, Sport
A young hellraiser quits his moonshine business to try to become the best NASCAR racer the south has ever seen.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Valerie Perrine, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ned Beatty
Votes: 2,182
13. Hawaiian Gardens (2001)
Not Rated | 110 min
A seductive 17-year-old temptress who loves to read finds herself in an unusual triangle between her mother's lover--a 70-year-old writer--and a German copyright pirate.
Director: Percy Adlon | Stars: Tzi Ma, Richard Roundtree, Rodney Rincon, Joseph Anthony
Votes: 66
14. Angela (1977)
91 min | Drama
A war vet finds out that a former prostitute had his baby. Doubting it's his, he gives it away, so she reports him. Twenty years later, she still wants to find her son. She meets a young man and falls in love, but the vet's prison term ends.
Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Sophia Loren, Steve Railsback, John Vernon, John Huston
Votes: 213
15. Gun Hill Road (2011)
R | 86 min | Drama
An ex-con returns home to the Bronx after three years in prison to discover his wife estranged and his child exploring a gender transformation that will test the fragile bonds of their family.
Director: Rashaad Ernesto Green | Stars: Esai Morales, Robert Salzman, Ty Jones, Harmony Santana
Votes: 1,260 | Gross: $0.15M
16. By Way of the Stars (1992–1993)
PG | Adventure, Drama, Family
Spring, 1865. The last spring in the childhood of Lukas Bienmann. Nothing forebodes the calamities about to befall the 13-year-old boy and his family in the peaceful town of Liebenberg, ... See full summary »
Stars: Zachary Bennett, Gema Zamprogna, Christian Kohlund, Anja Kruse
Votes: 167
17. The Nickel-Hopper (1926)
37 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
Dance hall Romeos and an irresponsible father create comic complications in the life of a nickel-per-whirl taxi dancer.
Directors: F. Richard Jones, Hal Yates | Stars: Mabel Normand, Michael Visaroff, Theodore von Eltz, Jimmy Anderson
Votes: 139
18. Little Daddy (1931)
20 min | Family, Comedy, Short
When local authorities find out that Farina is Stymie's guardian, they try to take him away. The kids try to stop it.
Director: Robert F. McGowan | Stars: Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, Norman 'Chubby' Chaney, Jackie Cooper, Allen 'Farina' Hoskins
Votes: 167
19. Ten Dollars or Ten Days (1924)
20 min | Comedy, Short
A store clerk is wrongfully arrested for theft and killing the night watchman, who is very much alive. After dangling from a building, he stumbles onto the real burglar.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Ben Turpin, Harry Gribbon, Irene, John J. Richardson
Votes: 112
20. 35 Aside (1996)
27 min | Comedy, Short
Philip is a misfit at his new school. When he is bullied, his mother decides to sort out things between him and his schoolmates, because his father unable to do so, as he is currently doing time in prison.
Director: Damien O'Donnell | Stars: James Mahon, Maria Hayden, Moira Deady, Ciara Burke
Votes: 200
21. A Lad and His Lamp (1929)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Another Van Beuren Aesop's Fables cartoon with a soundtrack added in the late 1940s.
Director: Paul Terry
Votes: 40
22.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode:
Mea Culpa
(2004)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While giving his testimony in a retrial, Grissom sees fingerprints on a matchbox that he does not recall. The victim Max Larson was found dead I his hardware store hit by a wrench. He ... See full summary »
Director: David Grossman | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads
Votes: 763
23.
Fastlane (2002–2003)
Episode:
Ray Ray
(2002)
Not Rated | 44 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
As their investigation into a counterfeiting case goes bad and someone Van was close to gets killed, Van and Deaq turn to Vans imprisoned father, an expert counterfeiter, for assistance.
Director: Marcos Siega | Stars: Peter Facinelli, Bill Bellamy, Tiffani Thiessen, Robert Forster
Votes: 57
24.
Dexter (2006–2013)
Episode:
Truth Be Told
(2006)
TV-MA | 54 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Ice Truck Killer kidnaps someone close to Dexter, forcing him into a trap that will forever change his life, while Doakes begins to harbor suspicions about Dexter's odd behavior.
Director: Keith Gordon | Stars: Michael C. Hall, Julie Benz, Jennifer Carpenter, Erik King
Votes: 7,447
25.
Women Behind Bars (2008– )
Episode:
Roena Ashing & Connie Keel
(2008)
TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary
A cabdriver and her four accomplices kill a handicapped man and set fire to his home after he accuses her of stealing $500. A teenager who waited in the car while her husband and his cousin robbed a liquor store and killed the store clerk.
Director: Richard Swindell | Stars: Kay Bess, Roena Ashing, Loretta Ralph, Jeff Connor
Votes: 16
26.
Paradox (2009–2010)
Episode:
Episode #1.5
(2009)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Christian's latest images show four corpses and the arm of their apparent slayer wearing Rebecca's watch. Ben meanwhile is concerned about his daughter Leah's friendship with local ... See full summary »
Director: Omar Madha | Stars: Tamzin Outhwaite, Emun Elliott, Mark Bonnar, Chiké Okonkwo
Votes: 113
27.
The Mentalist (2008–2015)
Episode:
Rhapsody in Red
(2011)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While CBI investigates the murder of a concert violinist, Cho helps a boy who is searching for clues that could prove his imprisoned father's innocence.
Director: David Barrett | Stars: Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, Owain Yeoman
Votes: 1,273
28.
Black Snow (2022– )
Episode:
The Lost Boys
(2023)
TV-MA | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The dead speak louder.
Director: Matthew Saville | Stars: Eden Cassady, Lisa Blackman, Seini Willett, Jemmason Power
Votes: 289
29.
Black Snow (2022– )
Episode:
Sugar Sugar
(2023)
TV-MA | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Power silences the dead.
Director: Matthew Saville | Stars: Gulliver McGrath, Travis Fimmel, Kim Gyngell, Kestie Morassi
Votes: 276
30.
The Vanishing Triangle (2023)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2023)
44 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
When reporter Lisa Wallace writes an article on her mother's murder, the killer resurfaces hinting at a kidnapping. Lisa and Detective David Burkely investigate, connecting the killer to the disappearance of a woman called Amy Reynolds.
Director: Imogen Murphy | Stars: India Mullen, Allen Leech, Aaron Monaghan, Laoise Sweeney
Votes: 89
31.
Greenleaf (2016–2020)
Episode:
March to the Sea
(2016)
TV-14 | 41 min | Drama
Bishop shoots Mac in the upper arm. Grace is eased out of the Deacon Board for having called the police. Mac is arrested for his past deviancy, while in hospital. Mae is unforgiving of Mac. Charity kicks her husband out from the bedroom.
Director: Allan Kroeker | Stars: Merle Dandridge, Kim Hawthorne, Desiree Ross, Lamman Rucker
Votes: 102
32.
Dickensian (2015–2016)
Episode:
Episode #1.5
(2016)
TV-PG | 30 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Meriwether goes to extreme lengths to get Miss Havisham to notice him. Meanwhile, Martha Cratchit's wedding plans are thrown into turmoil.
Director: Harry Bradbeer | Stars: Joseph Quinn, Tuppence Middleton, Mark Stanley, Tom Weston-Jones
Votes: 140