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1. The Game (1997)
R | 129 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After a wealthy San Francisco banker is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, his life is turned upside down as he begins to question if it might really be a concealed conspiracy to destroy him.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Michael Douglas, Deborah Kara Unger, Sean Penn, James Rebhorn
Votes: 431,217 | Gross: $48.32M
2. Suspiria (1977)
R | 92 min | Horror
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé
Votes: 105,869
3. Jarhead (2005)
R | 125 min | Biography, Drama, War
A psychological study of Marine's state of mind during the Gulf War. Told through the eyes of a U.S. Marine sniper who struggles to cope with boredom, a sense of isolation, and other issues back home.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Lucas Black, Scott MacDonald
Votes: 207,336 | Gross: $62.66M
4. I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013)
R | 106 min | Horror, Thriller
When Katie innocently accepts an offer to have new photos taken for her portfolio, the experience quickly turns into a nightmare of rape, torture and kidnapping. Now, she will have to find the strength to exact her brutal revenge.
Director: Steven R. Monroe | Stars: Jemma Dallender, Joe Absolom, Yavor Baharov, George Zlatarev
Votes: 32,979 | Gross: $0.00M
5. Father Goose (1964)
Approved | 118 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
During World War II, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.
Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard, Jack Good
Votes: 12,356 | Gross: $12.50M
6. Arabesque (1966)
Passed | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
International intrigue in London, involving an American university professor, an Arab prime minister, a ruthless businessman, a beautiful spy, and hieroglyphics.
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel, Kieron Moore
Votes: 7,976
7. No Retreat, No Surrender 2 (1987)
R | 92 min | Adventure, Action
In this sequel, Scott Wylde, an American kickboxer, must go to Cambodia to rescue his Vietnamese girlfriend from Russian and Vietnamese troops.
Director: Corey Yuen | Stars: Loren Avedon, Max Thayer, Cynthia Rothrock, Patra Wanthivanond
Votes: 2,120 | Gross: $0.11M
8. You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
In Buenos Aires, a man who has decreed that his daughters must marry in order of age allows an American dancer to perform at his club under the condition that he play suitor to his second-oldest daughter.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou, Isobel Elsom
Votes: 4,100 | Gross: $0.67M
9. Husbands (1970)
PG-13 | 154 min | Comedy, Drama
After the death of a common friend, three married men leave their lives together, seeking pleasure and freedom and ultimately leaving for London.
Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Jenny Runacre
Votes: 7,390 | Gross: $0.78M
10. Until They Sail (1957)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Romance, War
During WWII, unmarried New Zealand women meet and marry American soldiers who are fighting in the Pacific theater.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Jean Simmons, Paul Newman, Joan Fontaine, Piper Laurie
Votes: 1,577
11. 6 Bullets (2012)
R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ex-mercenary known for finding missing children is hired by a mixed martial arts fighter whose daughter has been kidnapped.
Director: Ernie Barbarash | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Joe Flanigan, Anna-Louise Plowman, Charlotte Beaumont
Votes: 15,875
12. Rage (1966)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, Thriller
A man bitten by a rabid dog in the desert must find help before it's too late.
Director: Gilberto Gazcón | Stars: Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, David Reynoso, Armando Silvestre
Votes: 759
13. China Doll (1958)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance, War
American pilot Cliff Brandon, fighting the Japanese in China, finds himself the unintentional "owner" of a Chinese housekeeper, Shu-Jen. The unlikely couple falls in love and marries, but not without tragedy brought on by the war.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Victor Mature, Li Hua Li, Ward Bond, Bob Mathias
Votes: 604
14. Tonight and Every Night (1945)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, Musical, War
The theater in which this film is set was called The Windmill and performers there refused to be deterred by the blitz that was leveling much of London at the time.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman, Janet Blair, Marc Platt
Votes: 1,154
15. History Is Made at Night (1937)
Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A wealthy divorcée falls for a charming Parisian, but her insanely jealous ex-husband will do anything to get her back.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Colin Clive
Votes: 2,546
16. The Angry Hills (1959)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, War, Thriller
In 1941, the Greek resistance entrusts an American journalist with a secret Greek double-agent list that must reach London and not fall into German hands.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Stanley Baker, Elisabeth Müller, Gia Scala
Votes: 1,165
17. $ (1971)
R | 121 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob three safety deposit boxes containing $1.5 million in cash belonging to three very different criminals from a high-tech security bank in Hamburg, Germany.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Gert Fröbe, Robert Webber
Votes: 2,900 | Gross: $4.40M
18. The King of the Kickboxers (1990)
R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A cop goes undercover in Thailand to avenge his brother's death in this martial arts film.
Director: Lucas Lowe | Stars: Loren Avedon, Richard Jaeckel, Don Stroud, Billy Blanks
Votes: 2,019
19. A Man Could Get Killed (1966)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Thriller
In Lisbon, an American businessman is mistaken for a British agent with hilarious consequences.
Directors: Ronald Neame, Cliff Owen | Stars: James Garner, Melina Mercouri, Sandra Dee, Anthony Franciosa
Votes: 534
20. Pernicious (2014)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
It was supposed to be an adventure of a lifetime as three young girls spend the summer in Thailand. But their adventure quickly becomes a nightmare when the trio unleashes the spirit of a murdered child with only one thing on her mind - revenge.
Director: James Cullen Bressack | Stars: Ciara Hanna, Emily O'Brien, Jackie Moore, Sara Malakul Lane
Votes: 1,984
21. Dangerous When Wet (1953)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
With her promoter-trainer and family in tow, Katie Higgins swims her way from the Arkansas Ozarks to foggy London and the English Channel. - SimonJack
Directors: Charles Walters, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas, Jack Carson, Charlotte Greenwood
Votes: 1,151
22. Rain (1932)
Passed | 94 min | Drama
A prostitute newly arrived in the South Pacific finds herself at odds with a stern missionary determined to save her soul.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, Fred Howard, Ben Hendricks Jr.
Votes: 3,047 | Gross: $1.17M
23. Beyond Mombasa (1956)
90 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
An American travels to East Africa, where he tries to find out how his brother died.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Donna Reed, Leo Genn, Ron Randell
Votes: 415
24. Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963)
G | 98 min | Adventure
In eighteenth century England, the mysterious masked rider known as the Scarecrow (Patrick McGoohan) leads a rebel band to save the town of Romney Marsh from King George III's (Eric Pohlmann's) oppression and Naval press gangs.
Director: James Neilson | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, George Cole, Tony Britton, Michael Hordern
Votes: 662
25. City in the Sea (1965)
Unrated | 84 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
In 1903 Cornwall, a group of locals discover an underwater city, dating back to 1803, that hides a society of smugglers and aquatic creatures.
Directors: Jacques Tourneur, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Vincent Price, Tab Hunter, David Tomlinson, Susan Hart
Votes: 2,610
26. The Object of Beauty (1991)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
This story is about a ne'er-do-well and his girlfriend as they search for a thief.
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg | Stars: John Malkovich, Andie MacDowell, Lolita Davidovich, Rudi Davies
Votes: 2,303 | Gross: $5.19M
27. Istanbul (1957)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead...or does he?
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Errol Flynn, Cornell Borchers, John Bentley, Torin Thatcher
Votes: 595
28. China Sky (1945)
Approved | 78 min | Adventure, Drama, War
The conflicts of war-torn China are reflected in miniature within an American mission hospital.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Randolph Scott, Ruth Warrick, Ellen Drew, Anthony Quinn
Votes: 551
29. Counterpoint (1967)
Approved | 107 min | Drama, Music, War
A famous orchestra conductor is captured by the Germans in WW2, and is forced to perform at private concerts for the Nazi generals.
Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Kathryn Hays, Leslie Nielsen
Votes: 1,058
30. Man on a Tightrope (1953)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, Thriller
A Czech circus owner/clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame, Cameron Mitchell
Votes: 1,848
31. Crisis (1950)
Passed | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
While on vacation in a Latin American country, an American neurosurgeon and his wife become tangled in a revolutionary uprising against a tyrannical dictator.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Cary Grant, José Ferrer, Paula Raymond, Signe Hasso
Votes: 1,929
32. The Naked Runner (1967)
101 min | Drama, Thriller
During the Cold War, an American industrial-designer living in London is used by the MI-6 as an unwilling pawn in the spy game during a trip to a trade show in East Germany.
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Peter Vaughan, Derren Nesbitt, Nadia Gray
Votes: 557
33. Four Men and a Prayer (1938)
Not Rated | 85 min | Adventure, Mystery
The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Loretta Young, Richard Greene, George Sanders, David Niven
Votes: 882
34. The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)
Unrated | 97 min | Mystery, Thriller
French police inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a rich Paris widow and ends up chasing the killer up the Eiffel Tower's girders.
Directors: Burgess Meredith, Irving Allen, Charles Laughton | Stars: Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith, Robert Hutton
Votes: 1,031
35. Circle of Danger (1951)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
In the 1950s, an American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother's death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid in Nazi-occupied France.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Ray Milland, Patricia Roc, Marius Goring, Hugh Sinclair
Votes: 1,004
36. The Executioner (1975)
PG | 93 min | Drama, Thriller
Western intelligence agents try, by all means necessary, to prevent a Communist-bloc defector from leaving the West in his bid to return home to lead an uprising.
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner, Bekim Fehmiu, Timothy Dalton
Votes: 345
37. War Nurse (1930)
Passed | 81 min | Drama, Romance, War
Women from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War I.
Director: Edgar Selwyn | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Anita Page, June Walker, Robert Ames
Votes: 396
38. Flight from Ashiya (1964)
Not Rated | 100 min | Adventure, Romance, Drama
A flight crew tries to save the survivors of a shipwreck off the coast of Japan during a raging typhoon.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Yul Brynner, Richard Widmark, George Chakiris, Suzy Parker
Votes: 722
39. Shoot First (1953)
Approved | 88 min | Adventure, Thriller
A retired U.S. Army Colonel living in England stumbles upon a spy ring when he shoots buckshot at a poacher during a hunt.
Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Joel McCrea, Laurence Naismith, Denis Lehrer, Marius Goring
Votes: 357
40. The Last Blitzkrieg (1959)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, War
The fanatical son of a Nazi General leads a squad of German commandos, disguised as American Troops, behind the lines in order to sabotage the Allied Forces. Stars Van Johnson, Kerwin Matthews, Dick York and Larry Storch.
Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: Van Johnson, Kerwin Mathews, Dick York, Larry Storch
Votes: 344
41. Latin Lovers (1953)
Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Nora Taylor has $37,000,000 but thinks every man she meets prefers her bankbook figure to her own, and that includes her current fiancé, Paul Chevron, who has $48,000,000 of his own. Paul ... See full summary »
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Lana Turner, Ricardo Montalban, John Lund, Louis Calhern
Votes: 589
42. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1980)
102 min | Comedy, Crime
Released from a British prison, an American is hired as an electrician for a London bank but his criminal acquaintances show-up and force the reluctant Yank to join them as the inside-man in a well-planned bank heist.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Richard Jordan, Oliver Tobias, David Niven, Elke Sommer
Votes: 489
43. Not with My Wife, You Don't! (1966)
Approved | 119 min | Comedy, Romance
During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott. Lisi marries Curtis after he convinces her that Scott has been ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Panama | Stars: Tony Curtis, Virna Lisi, George C. Scott, Carroll O'Connor
Votes: 990
44. Dancers (1987)
PG | 99 min | Drama, Musical
A successful aging dancer takes a young female protegee.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alessandra Ferri, Leslie Browne, Tommy Rall
Votes: 355 | Gross: $1.19M
45. The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In 1901, a group of IRA members decides to rob the Bank of England in order to finance their movement and to embarrass the British government.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Peter O'Toole, Kieron Moore
Votes: 956
46. Never Let Me Go (1953)
Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
An American reporter stationed in post-war Moscow marries a ballet dancer, but their relationship is threatened by the country's political volatility.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Clark Gable, Gene Tierney, Bernard Miles, Richard Haydn
Votes: 905
47. Personal Property (1937)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Romance
Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow Crystal Wetherby without knowing she is engaged to his brother.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Jean Harlow, Robert Taylor, Reginald Owen, Una O'Connor
Votes: 1,118
48. The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two English aristocrats pursue a rich American widow who may not be quite the person she claims to be.
Directors: Richard Boleslawski, Dorothy Arzner, George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, William Powell, Frank Morgan
Votes: 1,646
49. Strike Commando 2 (1988)
95 min | Action, Adventure, War
An ex-army major is kidnapped by terrorists in the Philippines, demanding ten million dollars worth of diamonds. Michael, a Vietnam vet who served under him, goes on a solo mission determined to rescue him.
Directors: Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso | Stars: Brent Huff, Mary Stavin, Richard Harris, Mel Davidson
Votes: 438
50. Up from the Beach (1965)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, War
After the D-Day landings in June 1944, a US Army platoon liberates a small village in Normandy from German occupation.
Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Red Buttons, Irina Demick, Marius Goring
Votes: 145