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1. E.T. (1982)
PG | 115 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Dee Wallace
Votes: 437,686 | Gross: $435.11M
2. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
PG-13 | 166 min | Western
A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards
Votes: 349,178 | Gross: $5.32M
3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
PG | 138 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon
Votes: 216,956 | Gross: $132.09M
4. Inland Empire (2006)
R | 180 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Karolina Gruszka, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Grace Zabriskie, Laura Dern
Votes: 62,191 | Gross: $0.75M
5. Throne of Blood (1957)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura
Votes: 55,977
6. Superman II (1980)
PG | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty
Votes: 114,659 | Gross: $108.19M
7. Supergirl (1984)
PG | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After losing a powerful orb, Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin, comes to Earth to retrieve it and instead finds herself up against a wicked witch.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Helen Slater, Faye Dunaway, Peter O'Toole, Mia Farrow
Votes: 24,032 | Gross: $13.60M
8. Shadowlands (1993)
PG | 131 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham from the U.S.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Julian Fellowes, Roddy Maude-Roxby
Votes: 20,450 | Gross: $25.84M
9. The Night Belongs to Lovers (2021)
88 min | Drama, Romance
Strangers meet at night near cliffs before his impending marriage. Despite her disbelief in pleasure, they connect intimately and unconditionally for one night, exploring desire and vulnerability on the edge before parting ways.
Director: Julien Hilmoine | Stars: Laura Müller, Schemci Lauth
Votes: 256
10. Angel-A (2005)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A beautiful woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together.
Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Rie Rasmussen, Jamel Debbouze, Gilbert Melki, Serge Riaboukine
Votes: 35,675 | Gross: $0.20M
11. Spirits of the Dead (1968)
R | 121 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A trio of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a cruel countess haunted by her cousin's stallion, a sadistic soldier haunted by his doppelgänger, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.
Directors: Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim | Stars: Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Terence Stamp
Votes: 6,948
12. Area 51 (2015)
R | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Three young conspiracy theorists attempt to uncover the mysteries of Area 51, the government's secret location rumored to have hosted encounters with alien beings. What they find at this hidden facility exposes unimaginable secrets.
Director: Oren Peli | Stars: Reid Warner, Darrin Bragg, Ben Rovner, Jelena Nik
Votes: 15,176
13. The Beekeeper (1986)
122 min | Drama
A bee keeper, Spiros, travels from the north to the south of Greece with his bees to meet the spring.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Nadia Mourouzi, Serge Reggiani, Jenny Roussea
Votes: 2,932
14. Straight on Till Morning (1972)
R | 96 min | Thriller
A timid, withdrawn woman meets a man she believes is finally the love of her life, unaware that he is a vicious serial killer.
Director: Peter Collinson | Stars: Rita Tushingham, Shane Briant, James Bolam, Katya Wyeth
Votes: 1,425
15. Sonic the Hedgehog (I) (1991 Video Game)
K-A | Action, Adventure, Family
A blue hedgehog with supersonic speed must rescue animals from being turned into robots by a mad scientist.
Votes: 3,636
16. Batla House (2019)
Not Rated | 146 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In 2008, a violent shootout with terror suspects leaves one police officer struggling to hunt down the fugitives and justify the police action.
Director: Nikkhil Advani | Stars: Mrunal Thakur, Nora Fatehi, John Abraham, Ravi Kishan
Votes: 12,566 | Gross: $0.49M
17. 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
18. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1972)
101 min | Drama, Sport
Goalkeeper Josef Bloch is ejected during a game for foul play. He leaves the field and goes to spend the night with a cinema cashier.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Arthur Brauss, Kai Fischer, Erika Pluhar, Libgart Schwarz
Votes: 2,259
19. Devilish Education (1995)
29 min | Short
After taking a dip in the lake, an innocent maiden encounters an enigmatic stranger dressed in black. Soon, he will introduce her to the secret pleasures of the flesh and the mysterious ways of the world.
Director: Janusz Majewski | Stars: Renata Dancewicz, Marek Kondrat, Anna Dymna, Stanislaw Brudny
Votes: 554
20. Beyond the Walls (2012)
Unrated | 98 min | Drama, Romance
Paulo, a young pianist, meets Ilir, a bartender and bass guitar player originally from Albania. They become lovers. Confronted by his girlfriend Anka, Paulo finds himself out on the street.... See full summary »
Director: David Lambert | Stars: Matila Malliarakis, Guillaume Gouix, David Salles, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin
Votes: 1,605
21. The Aviator's Wife (1981)
PG | 106 min | Comedy, Romance
A young student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her lover.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Philippe Marlaud, Marie Rivière, Anne-Laure Meury, Mathieu Carrière
Votes: 5,179
22. The Architecture of Love (2024)
TV-14 | 110 min | Drama, Romance
Raia is a famous writer who suffers from writer's block. In order to get inspired again, he then went to New York. It was in that city that Raia met River and then got involved in a love story that was overshadowed by the past.
Director: Teddy Soeriaatmadja | Stars: Nicholas Saputra, Putri Marino, Jerome Kurnia, Jihane Almira
Votes: 20
23. Bittersweet Love (1976)
PG | 92 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Young married couple expecting a baby suddenly discover they are half-brother and sister.
Director: David Miller | Stars: Lana Turner, Robert Lansing, Celeste Holm, Robert Alda
Votes: 209
24. This Crazy Heart (2017)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
An irresponsible man is forced by his father to take care of one of his ailing patients.
Director: Marc Rothemund | Stars: Elyas M'Barek, Philip Schwarz, Nadine Wrietz, Uwe Preuss
Votes: 3,699
25. Macadam Stories (2015)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
Improbable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation.
Director: Samuel Benchetrit | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Gustave Kervern, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Tassadit Mandi
Votes: 3,604
26. Affairs of the Heart (1974–1975)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A series of TV plays based on stories or novels by Henry James.
Stars: Georgina Hale, Anton Rodgers, Diana Rigg, Sinéad Cusack
Votes: 63
27. Out of the Blue (2003 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 107 min | Documentary, History
The definitive investigation on the UFO phenomenon narrated by Peter Coyote.
Directors: Tim Coleman, James Fox, Boris Zubov | Stars: Peter Coyote, Amir D. Aczel, Bernhard Haisch, John Samford
Votes: 862
28. Puccini for Beginners (2006)
82 min | Comedy, Romance
A recently-singled New York writer finds herself in two surprising and complicated relationships.
Director: Maria Maggenti | Stars: Ken Barnett, Julianne Nicholson, Brian Letscher, Elizabeth Reaser
Votes: 2,504 | Gross: $0.09M
29. A World Without Women (2011)
56 min | Comedy, Drama
Confused feelings for Sylvain when he meets Patricia and Juliette on their one-week holiday by the sea.
Director: Guillaume Brac | Stars: Vincent Macaigne, Laure Calamy, Constance Rousseau, Laurent Papot
Votes: 858
30. DumbLand (2002)
TV-MA | 35 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A series of 5-minute line animations (drawn in the rough style and with the minimalist plots of David Lynch's The Angriest Dog in the World comic strip) featuring an angry and violent Neanderthal, and his family and neighbors.
Star: David Lynch
Votes: 3,153
31. Alien Visitor (1996)
PG-13 | 92 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In this sci-fi adventure a gorgeous alien woman is sent to Earth by mistake from the planet Epsilon. Landing in the Australian outback she meets a surveyor and they cross the continent ... See full summary »
Director: Rolf de Heer | Stars: Ullie Birve, Syd Brisbane, Alethea McGrath, Chloe Ferguson
Votes: 665
32. Our Father's Keeper (2020)
TV-PG | 92 min | Drama
A story that tests the limits of a family when tragedy strikes, and a film that encourages viewers to grow in love and understanding of one another.
Director: Rob Diamond | Stars: Kyler Steven Fisher, Shayla McCaffrey, Link Lindquist, Tara Berrett
Votes: 178
33. Tit for Tat (1935)
Approved | 19 min | Comedy, Short, Family
After the events in Them Thar Hills (1934), Stan and Ollie encounter their old nemesis, whose grocery shop is next to their home-appliances store. Nobody can let bygones be bygones, and a war breaks out. Will those tit-for-tat battles ever end?
Director: Charley Rogers | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Charlie Hall
Votes: 2,478
34. Soleil (1997)
104 min | Drama
Algiers, 1940. MAMAN TITINE has lived alone with her five children ever since her husband JOSEPH, a Jewish post office employee, set off for Paris with forged papers to find work. Maman ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Hanin | Stars: Sophia Loren, Philippe Noiret, Marianne Sägebrecht, Roger Hanin
Votes: 188
35. Tatlo, dalawa, isa (1974)
Not Rated | 156 min | Drama
(Tagalog with English subtitles) Filipino cinema lenged, Lino Brocka, directs this compilation of three intimate stories about the perseverance of hope featuring a drug addict, an abandoned daughter and a repressed catholic.
Director: Lino Brocka | Stars: Jay Ilagan, Perla Bautista, Laurice Guillen, Soxy Topacio
Votes: 415
36. X-Men (1992 Video Game)
Action, Sci-Fi
Marvel's mutants face off against their nemesis Magneto in the popular arcade game from Konami.
Director: C. Lee | Stars: Kyle Hebert, Mela Lee
Votes: 123
37. 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: 633
38. Tera Kya Hoga Johnny (2009)
155 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An abused boy who sells coffee on a bicycle gets involved in a robbery.
Director: Sudhir Mishra | Stars: Neil Nitin Mukesh, Sikandar Agarwal, Aditya Bhattacharya, Abhay Deol
Votes: 242
39. Absurd Encounter with Fear (1967)
2 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
A man approaches a woman in a field.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Jack Fisk, Peggy Reavey
Votes: 1,409
40. Those Dirty Dogs (1973)
PG | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
Captain Chadwell, Lieutenant Junger and Sergeant Smith are sent by Washington to help their colleagues of Fort Apache to recover stolen arms. A bounty hunter accompanies them.
Director: Giuseppe Rosati | Stars: Gianni Garko, Stephen Boyd, Howard Ross, Simón Andreu
Votes: 229
41. Kagekiha opera (2016)
90 min | Drama, Romance
A Japanese LGBT love story set in a small female only theater group, based on a semi-autobiographical novel "Kokan" by Junko Emoto.
Director: Junko Emoto | Stars: Saori, Arisa Nakamura, Yuki Sakurai, Suzuka Morita
Votes: 26
42. Little Green Men (IV)
Drama, Sci-Fi | Announced
A documentary filmmaker meets a descendant of a farmer family, who had a traumatic alien encounter in 1955. The filmmaker is shaken, when he notices ominous similarities between the encounter and his twin brother's past disappearance.
Director: Martyn Pick
43. Funny Girl (1970)
102 min | Romance, Comedy
The son of a shipping magnate finds himself increasingly drawn to a lively circus clown, unaware of her profession. This doesn't sit well with his companion, and a war in the name of love begins. Is he capable of loving the funny girl?
Director: Takis Vougiouklakis | Stars: Aliki Vougiouklaki, Nikos Galanos, Sofia Roubou, Spyros Kalogirou
Votes: 372
44. Lola Pater (2017)
95 min | Drama
When his mother dies, Zino decides to find his father, Farid. But 25 years ago, Farid became Lola.
Director: Nadir Moknèche | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Tewfik Jallab, Nadia Kaci, Véronique Dumont
Votes: 468
45. Welcome Aboard (2012)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
Despite his fame, Taillandier has suddenly stopped painting. Deeply depressed, the sixty-year-old decides to go away. He has no clear goal and explains nothing to his close friends. During ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Becker | Stars: Patrick Chesnais, Jeanne Lambert, Miou-Miou, Jacques Weber
Votes: 399
46. The Captured Bird (2012)
10 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
A darkly poetic fable that begins with a little girl drawing figures of people with chalk on the cement of a playground. She takes notice of an unusual crack in the pavement that is seeping... See full summary »
Director: Jovanka Vuckovic | Stars: Skyler Wexler, Darren Beaton, Ruby Beaton, Graydon Beaton
Votes: 351
47. Nuit d'ivresse (1986)
87 min | Comedy
Jacques Belin, presenter of a silly TV show, gets drunk after receiving an award and misses the train bringing his TV-soap-star fiancée. He meets up with Frède, just out of prison after a ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard Nauer | Stars: Josiane Balasko, Thierry Lhermitte, Gérard Martin, Jean-Claude Dauphin
Votes: 669
48. Haridas (2013)
146 min | Drama, Sport, Thriller
Sivadas (Kishore) is tough-talking encounter specialist in the police department. He has a mission to pin down a gangster and mercenary and is hot on his trail. But life changes for the ... See full summary »
Director: Kumaravelan | Stars: Kishore Kumar G., Sneha, Prithviraj Das, Soori
Votes: 228
49. O Astrapogiannos (1970)
116 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
The battle-scarred hero of the Greek Revolution, Giannos "Astrapogiannos", returns home after the end of the blood-soaked War of Independence, only to find himself in a new conflict, as he locks horns with a ruthless local Kodjabashis.
Director: Nikos Tzimas | Stars: Nikos Kourkoulos, Niki Triantafillidi, Giannis Argyris, Spyros Kalogirou
Votes: 312
50. One (Nine)
83 min | Drama | Completed
During the COVID-19 pandemic Nine filmmakers Isolating in different parts of the world Join to make a collective experiment ONE(NINE) is a timeless multiversal experience of what it means to find connection in a time of isolation
Directors: Isa Benn, Slater Jewell-Kemker, Jennifer Podemski, Carmen Sangion, Mina Shum, Ingrid Veninger, Dorothee Wenner, Shengze Zhu, Lydia Zimmermann | Stars: Derek McGrath, Jennifer Podemski, Michael Podemski-Bedard, Isa Benn