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1. Snowfall (2017–2023)
TV-MA | 44 min | Crime, Drama
A look at the early days of the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles during the beginning of the 1980s.
Stars: Damson Idris, Carter Hudson, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Isaiah John
Votes: 29,908
2. The Lives of Others (2006)
R | 137 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur
Votes: 410,356 | Gross: $11.29M
3. RRR (2022)
Not Rated | 187 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A fearless warrior on a perilous mission comes face to face with a steely cop serving British forces in this epic saga set in pre-independent India.
Director: S.S. Rajamouli | Stars: N.T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan, Ajay Devgn, Alia Bhatt
Votes: 167,218 | Gross: $14.50M
4. American Made (2017)
R | 115 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair.
Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Jesse Plemons
Votes: 208,073 | Gross: $51.34M
5. Secret in Their Eyes (2015)
PG-13 | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A tight-knit team of rising investigators, along with their supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.
Director: Billy Ray | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts, Dean Norris
Votes: 51,267 | Gross: $20.18M
6. Notes on a Scandal (2006)
R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her fifteen-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond a platonic friendship.
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Andrew Simpson, Tom Georgeson
Votes: 84,546 | Gross: $17.51M
7. Troll Hunter (2010)
PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
A group of students investigates a series of mysterious bear killings, but learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll hunter.
Director: André Øvredal | Stars: Otto Jespersen, Robert Stoltenberg, Knut Nærum, Glenn Erland Tosterud
Votes: 79,525 | Gross: $0.25M
8. Kill the Messenger (2014)
R | 112 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA's role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contra insurgents in Nicaragua.
Director: Michael Cuesta | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Robert Patrick, Jena Sims, Robert Pralgo
Votes: 48,751 | Gross: $2.45M
9. Deep Cover (1992)
R | 107 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A uniformed police officer is recruited by the DEA to infiltrate a drug smuggling ring looking to expand its operation.
Director: Bill Duke | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Lira Angel, René Assa
Votes: 14,037 | Gross: $16.64M
10. Air America (1990)
R | 113 min | Action, Comedy, War
A young pilot finds himself recruited unwittingly into a covert and corrupt CIA airlift operation in Laos during the Vietnam conflict.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr., Nancy Travis, Ken Jenkins
Votes: 30,531 | Gross: $31.05M
11. The Boxtrolls (2014)
PG | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator.
Directors: Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade
Votes: 61,492 | Gross: $50.84M
12. Bionic Woman (2007)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A reimagining of the popular 1970s TV series about a female athlete who is given bionic strength.
Stars: Michelle Ryan, Miguel Ferrer, Molly Price, Lucy Hale
Votes: 8,539
13. Disco Boy (2023)
92 min | Drama
After a painful journey through Europe, Aleksei arrives in Paris to join the Foreign Legion. Meanwhile, in the Niger Delta, Jomo struggles against the oil companies threatening his village and the lives of his family.
Director: Giacomo Abbruzzese | Stars: Morr Ndiaye, Wahab Oladiti, Salem Kisita, Mutamba Kalonji
Votes: 1,210
14. Le Havre (2011)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
When an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, an aging shoe shiner takes pity on the child and welcomes him into his home.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: André Wilms, Blondin Miguel, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Kati Outinen
Votes: 23,556 | Gross: $0.61M
15. The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
R | 118 min | Drama, History, Romance
In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.
Director: Charles Shyer | Stars: Hilary Swank, Simon Baker, Jonathan Pryce, Adrien Brody
Votes: 5,595 | Gross: $0.43M
16. Bob Roberts (1992)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A conservative folk singer turns his hand to politics, running for the US Senate. He is not above dirty tricks and smear campaigns to gain an advantage over his opponent.
Director: Tim Robbins | Stars: Tim Robbins, Giancarlo Esposito, Alan Rickman, Ray Wise
Votes: 15,633 | Gross: $4.48M
17. Caramel (2007)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut.
Director: Nadine Labaki | Stars: Nadine Labaki, Joanna Moukarzel, Gisèle Aouad, Yasmine Al Massri
Votes: 14,599 | Gross: $1.06M
18. Soldier of Fortune, Inc. (1997–1999)
60 min | Action, Adventure
In a world where there are no obvious "bad guys", where governments engage in secret wars and illegal activities that threaten the security of every individual and nation on the planet, a ... See full summary »
Stars: Brad Johnson, Tim Abell, Melinda Clarke, David Selby
Votes: 512
19. The Third Generation (1979)
111 min | Crime, Drama
A wildly anarchic satire of urban guerrilla warfare in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Volker Spengler, Margit Carstensen
Votes: 2,805
20. By Any Means (2013)
60 min | Crime, Drama
By Any Means follows a clandestine unit living on the edge and playing the criminal elite at their own game, existing in the grey area between the letter of the law and true justice.
Stars: Shelley Conn, Gina McKee, Andrew Lee Potts, Warren Brown
Votes: 1,316
21. Romanzo Criminale (2005)
152 min | Crime, Drama
Set in the 1970s, it's the story of three lifelong friends who take control of organized crime in Rome.
Director: Michele Placido | Stars: Kim Rossi Stuart, Anna Mouglalis, Pierfrancesco Favino, Claudio Santamaria
Votes: 9,660
22. Brief Encounter (1974 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Drama
Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railroad station and find themselves in a brief but intense affair.
Director: Alan Bridges | Stars: Richard Burton, Sophia Loren, Jack Hedley, Rosemary Leach
Votes: 702
23. Intergirl (1989)
151 min | Drama, Romance
A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl", a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.
Director: Pyotr Todorovskiy | Stars: Elena Yakovleva, Tomas Laustiola, Larisa Malevannaya, Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
Votes: 1,473
24. Manon (1949)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama
A classic tale about bitter relationships between a frivolous girl and a soldier is adapted for the post-World War II time.
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Serge Reggiani, Michel Auclair, Cécile Aubry, Andrex
Votes: 1,172
25. Terraferma (2011)
R | 88 min | Drama
A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.
Director: Emanuele Crialese | Stars: Filippo Pucillo, Donatella Finocchiaro, Giuseppe Fiorello, Mimmo Cuticchio
Votes: 3,212
26. The Little Kidnappers (1953)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Family, Romance
A Scotsman, Jim MacKenzie, living on a primitive homestead in Nova Scotia, is raising his two grandsons, Harry and Davy, following the death of their father in the Boer War. His son's death... See full summary »
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Jon Whiteley, Vincent Winter, Adrienne Corri, Duncan Macrae
Votes: 549
27. Turning Tide (2013)
TV-14 | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Sport
It tells the story of Yann Kermadec whose dreams suddenly come true when he has to replace the DCNS star skipper at the last minute before the start of the Vendée Globe (a round-the-world ... See full summary »
Director: Christophe Offenstein | Stars: François Cluzet, Samy Seghir, Virginie Efira, Guillaume Canet
Votes: 2,545
28. Closeness (2017)
118 min | Drama
In the late-1990s squalid town of Nalchik, a poor young Jewish couple is kidnapped and a grievous ransom is demanded, as bitter resentments and cruel dilemmas come to light, magnifying the small community's grave predicament.
Director: Kantemir Balagov | Stars: Darya Zhovner, Atrem Cipin, Nazir Zhukov, Veniamin Kac
Votes: 3,292
29. Espion, lève-toi (1982)
98 min | Drama, Thriller
Sébastien Grenier, a secret agent, eliminates all his rivals in order to decipher who has killed some of his associates.
Director: Yves Boisset | Stars: Lino Ventura, Michel Piccoli, Bruno Cremer, Bernard Fresson
Votes: 1,058
30. 90 Degrees in the Shade (1965)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A respected grocery shop employee in Prague is covering up for her manager's misconduct with whom she is having an affair; however, things will get complicated when a thorough auditor pays a visit.
Director: Jirí Weiss | Stars: Anne Heywood, James Booth, Rudolf Hrusínský, Ann Todd
Votes: 345
31. The Road to Mandalay (2016)
108 min | Drama
Two Burmese immigrants fleeing their country's civil war in search of a new life in Thailand.
Director: Midi Z | Stars: Kai Ko, Ke-Xi Wu, Shin-Hong Wang
Votes: 746
32. The Clandestine (2012– )
Comedy
A group of geeks and one smoking hot chick form an outlaw motorcycle club.
Stars: Bennett Warden, Michael Lavery, John Render, Dermott Hickson
Votes: 30
33. Ground Zero (1987)
PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for... See full summary »
Directors: Bruce Myles, Michael Pattinson | Stars: Colin Friels, Jack Thompson, Donald Pleasence, Natalie Bate
Votes: 549 | Gross: $0.20M
34. American Drug War: The Last White Hope (2006)
Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary, Crime
With commentary from soldiers on both sides of the conflict, filmmaker Kevin Booth's incisive documentary wades into the murky waters of the American war on drugs, the longest and costliest war in U.S. history.
Director: Kevin Booth | Stars: Joe Arpaio, Jello Biafra, Osama bin Laden, Jeff Blackburn
Votes: 1,643
35. No Man's Land (1985)
110 min | Drama
Jean, a young Swiss whose watchmaking skills no longer prove useful in the real world, dawdles his time away either in his parents' farm or in Lucie's restaurant-bar.
Director: Alain Tanner | Stars: Hugues Quester, Myriam Mézières, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Betty Berr
Votes: 221
36. Nicht alle waren Mörder (2006 TV Movie)
92 min | Biography
Based on the childhood memories of actor Michael Degen, the movie deals with the everyday struggle to survive as a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. As his father had died in 1940 after being ... See full summary »
Director: Jo Baier | Stars: Nadja Uhl, Aaron Altaras, Hannelore Elsner, Dagmar Manzel
Votes: 454
37. Vogliamo i colonnelli (1973)
98 min | Comedy
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Claude Dauphin, Duilio Del Prete, Giuseppe Maffioli
Votes: 656
38. The Coming Days (2010)
PG-13 | 125 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In the near future, the dreams of three adult siblings living in Germany are fractured by difficult romantic relationships and their unwitting involvement with an underground organization ... See full summary »
Director: Lars Kraume | Stars: Bernadette Heerwagen, Daniel Brühl, August Diehl, Johanna Wokalek
Votes: 1,309
39. Mat (1990)
200 min | Drama, History
Based on Maxim Gorky's novel about a woman torn between her loyalties to husband and son in the years of the Revolution.
Director: Gleb Panfilov | Stars: Inna Churikova, Viktor Rakov, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Aleksandr Shishonok
Votes: 191
40. On Company Business (1980)
Not Rated | 174 min | Documentary, History
A controversial three part critical documentary on the history of the CIA.
Director: Allan Francovich | Stars: William Colby, Philip Agee, Harry S. Truman, George C. Marshall
Votes: 58
41. The Villa of Orgies (1964)
84 min | Comedy, Romance
A parliamentary candidate and his mistress will spend the night at the police station. After all, no one is above the law, no matter what his credentials or social status may appear to be.
Director: Dinos Dimopoulos | Stars: Labros Konstadaras, Kakia Analyti, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Andreas Douzos
Votes: 431
42. Dagli Appennini alle Ande (1959)
90 min | Drama
A well known Italian story about a teenage boy who stows away on a ship to Argentina, to find his mother in the remote mountain town where she has been working to send money back to her family in Italy.
Director: Folco Quilici | Stars: Marco Paoletti, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Fausto Tozzi, Guillermo Battaglia
Votes: 48
43. Barschel: A Murder in Geneva (1993)
74 min | Drama
A conspiracy-theorizing filmmaker meets with a prospective producer in order to pitch a movie about the death of real-life German politician Uwe Barschel, in which the official ruling of suicide raised more questions than answers.
Directors: Uwe Boll, Frank Lustig | Stars: Michael Rasmussen, Peter Schwab, Karl-Friedrich Gerster, Bernd Rieser
Votes: 1,331
44. The NSU-Complex (2016 TV Movie)
54 min | Documentary
An underground neo-nazi organisation evades law enforcement whilst performing horrific acts of crime and violence. But for how long?
Directors: Stefan Aust, Dirk Laabs | Stars: Stefan Aust, Tino Brandt, Uwe Böhnhardt, Arne-Andreas Ernst
Votes: 359
45. Vera Brühne (2001 TV Movie)
286 min | Drama, Crime
Two-part movie focusing on one of Germany's most controversial murder trials after World War II. In spring 1960, Dr. Dietrich Schwarz and his housekeeper Elisabeth Huhn are killed cruelly ... See full summary »
Director: Hark Bohm | Stars: Corinna Harfouch, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Ulrich Noethen, Hans Werner Meyer
Votes: 179
46. Women Recruits (1979)
115 min | Comedy
As both mother and daughter struggle to establish the position of women in the male-dominated armed forces, an unforeseen affair and a dangerous spy threaten everything. Can the female recruits live up to the army's expectations?
Director: Dimis Dadiras | Stars: Rena Vlahopoulou, Dinos Iliopoulos, Mary Vidali, Danos Lygizos
Votes: 283
47. Operation 'The Bus' (1978)
94 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In 1950 a Western spy is clandestinely parachuted into Communist Romania to retrieve secret WW2 codes and agent lists and also to assist a group of anti-Communist guerrillas escape but the Communist police is setting a trap.
Director: Virgil Calotescu | Stars: Mircea Albulescu, Aura Andritoiu, Ion Anghel, Aurelian Banica
Votes: 118
48. The Chinese Den (1940)
72 min | Drama
An affluent Chinese financier marries a lively British singer; however, an unforeseen but dangerous liaison with a plantation owner threatens to transform their once-peaceful retreat into a horrible prison. Is revenge the only solution?
Director: George King | Stars: Paul Lukas, Kay Walsh, Jane Baxter, Robert Douglas
Votes: 63
49. The Lobby - USA (2018)
Documentary
Stars: Max Blumenthal, John Mearsheimer, Jacob Baime, Jim Moran
Votes: 20
50. Enas megalos erotas (1964)
105 min | Drama, Romance
Surrendered to an omnipotent desire, a defenceless married housewife will come face-to-face with unexplored and unprecedented feelings, when a seductively alluring young playboy swears eternal love.
Director: Dinos Dimopoulos | Stars: Jenny Karezi, Nikos Kourkoulos, Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Minas Christidis
Votes: 109