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1. Sergio (2020)
R | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most treacherous mission of his career.
Director: Greg Barker | Stars: Wagner Moura, Ana de Armas, Brían F. O'Byrne, Bradley Whitford
Votes: 10,999
2. Lust for a Vampire (1971)
R | 91 min | Horror
In 1830, forty years to the day since the last manifestation of their dreaded vampirism, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla.
Director: Jimmy Sangster | Stars: Barbara Jefford, Ralph Bates, Suzanna Leigh, Yutte Stensgaard
Votes: 3,571
3. The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Horror
A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass, Jessie Robins
Votes: 33,893
4. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
In 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best
Votes: 20,922
5. The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1968–1970)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Derived from the 1947 movie with the same name, a house is haunted by a deceased sea captain who wreaks havoc with the new tenants who were not advised of his existence.
Stars: Hope Lange, Edward Mulhare, Reta Shaw, Harlen Carraher
Votes: 1,607
6. Willard (1971)
GP | 95 min | Horror
A social misfit uses his only friends, his pet rats, to exact revenge on his tormentors.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Bruce Davison, Elsa Lanchester, Sondra Locke, Ernest Borgnine
Votes: 5,518 | Gross: $19.22M
7. Ben (1972)
PG | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A lonely boy befriends Ben, the leader of a violent swarm of killer rats.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Lee Montgomery, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O'Connell, Rosemary Murphy
Votes: 3,432 | Gross: $0.77M
8. Willard (2003)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A young man with an unusual connection to rats uses them at his own sociopathic will.
Director: Glen Morgan | Stars: Crispin Glover, R. Lee Ermey, Laura Harring, Jackie Burroughs
Votes: 20,423 | Gross: $6.89M
9. The Dead (1987)
PG | 83 min | Drama
Gabriel Conroy and wife Gretta attend an early January dinner with friends at the home of his spinster aunts, an evening which results in an epiphany for both of them.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Helena Carroll, Cathleen Delany
Votes: 8,913 | Gross: $4.37M
10. The Mouse That Roared (1959)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy
An impoverished backward nation declares a war on the United States of America, hoping to lose, but things don't go according to plan.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, William Hartnell, David Kossoff
Votes: 9,465
11. Dominique (1979)
PG | 100 min | Horror, Thriller
A millionaire, who drove his wife to commit suicide, starts believing that he is being haunted by her spirit.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Jean Simmons, Jenny Agutter, Simon Ward
Votes: 1,183
12. Hoffman (1970)
GP | 113 min | Drama
A businessman blackmails his attractive young secretary into spending a weekend with him. Though he's a creep throughout, he gradually emerges as a sympathetic character.
Director: Alvin Rakoff | Stars: Peter Sellers, Sinéad Cusack, Jeremy Bulloch, Ruth Dunning
Votes: 1,764
13. The Mouse on the Moon (1963)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
A tiny country persuades the Americans and Soviets that they're starting a space program, when they really just want some money for new plumbing.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Bernard Cribbins, David Kossoff
Votes: 1,923
14. Brillantissime (2018)
95 min | Comedy, Romance
After getting dumped on Christmas Eve, Angela must rebuild her life surrounded by her rebellious teenager, her tyrannical mother, her hysterical best friend, and a weird psychologist.
Director: Michèle Laroque | Stars: Michèle Laroque, Kad Merad, Françoise Fabian, Gérard Darmon
Votes: 696
15. The Vampire Wedding (1993)
94 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Young English gentleman falls in love with beautiful Czech vampire.
Director: Jaroslav Soukup | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Iveta Bartosová, Petr Nározný, Viktor Preiss
Votes: 180
16. Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970)
107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a... See full summary »
Director: Pavel Jurácek | Stars: Lubomír Kostelka, Klára Jerneková, Milena Zahrynowska, Radovan Lukavský
Votes: 694
17. Act Without Words I (2000 TV Short)
16 min | Short, Comedy
A hot, thirsty man in the desert is tormented when the things he needs drop from the sky only to disappear again or hover out of his reach.
Director: Karel Reisz | Star: Sean Foley
Votes: 143
18. The Stalker's Apprentice (1998 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 76 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Marcus Walwyn develops a fatal obsession for a young girl he meets on a train. Corrupted by a book he reads by the convicted serial killer Helmut Kranze he embarks on a murderous mission.
Director: Marcus D.F. White | Stars: Peter Davison, James Bolam, Paula Wilcox, Gideon Turner
Votes: 119
19. Love's Bitter Mystery (2022)
72 min | Biography
James Joyce's provocative novel 'Ulysses' comes to life in a new immersive film, Love's Bitter Mystery. Set in the atmospheric post-gold-boom mansion at Villa Alba in Kew, this feature focuses on a critical year in the young author's life.
Director: Carly Wilding | Stars: Tobias Miller, Jacqueline Whiting, Rebecca Morton, May Jasper
20. Pension pro svobodné pány (1968)
90 min | Comedy
Visits by women are strictly prohibited in Ms Mossie's English pension for bachelors. Nevertheless, some of the younger tenants cannot resist the temptation and sometimes try to sneak a ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Krejcík | Stars: Iva Janzurová, Josef Abrhám, Jirí Hrzán, Vera Ferbasová
Votes: 118
21. Muj bájecný rozvod (2008 TV Movie)
105 min | Comedy
Directors: Jan Brichcín, Jana Kalisová | Star: Eliska Balzerová
Votes: 17
22. Hostinec U létavého draka (1971 TV Movie)
84 min | Crime, Mystery
Joseph Sheridan le Fanu's tale, "Inn at the Flying Dragon," brings dark fantasy, ghostly apparitions, and mysteries to the TV screen. It's part of his well-known collection, "The Dark ... See full summary »
Director: Eva Sadková | Stars: Jaromír Hanzlík, Jana Brejchová, Vladimír Smeral, Karel Sebesta
Votes: 18
23. Usporená libra (1963 TV Movie)
35 min | Comedy
A strict postal clerk refuses to satisfy two drunks who want to withdraw one pound from their account.
Directors: Ján Rohác, Vladimír Svitácek | Stars: Jan Werich, Jirí Sovák, Stella Zázvorková, Jana Werichová
Votes: 104
24. Rukojmí (1988 TV Movie)
100 min
Director: Eva Sadková | Stars: Vladimír Brabec, Regina Rázlová, Josef Kemr, Vilma Cibulková
25. Pension pro svobodné pány (1965 TV Movie)
73 min | Comedy
A young man living in a strictly run boarding house secretly brings a girl of loose morals into his room at night, who is nevertheless well-groomed and takes great advantage of her ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Krejcík | Stars: Jirina Jirásková, Josef Abrhám, Vera Ferbasová, Jirí Menzel
Votes: 23
26. Já jsem Osango (1969 TV Movie)
95 min | Drama
Director: Ivan Balada | Stars: Isaac Asempá, Eliska Balzerová, Libuse Billová, Jirí Broz
27. Tri holky jako kvet (2015 TV Movie)
111 min | Comedy, Drama
Directors: Jan Jirku, Václav Krístek | Stars: Eliska Balzerová, Iva Pazderková, Marie Dolezalová
Votes: 13
28. Joyce digital (1984)
33 min | Documentary, Short
Famous French or American artists and writers read in their own language large excerpts from 'Finnegans Wake' (1939), the last book by Irish writer James Joyce.
Director: Jean-Paul Fargier | Stars: Jean-Christophe Bouvet, John Cage, Nini Crépon, Merce Cunningham
29. L'échelle de Joyce (1983 Video)
55 min | Biography
An accumulation of about twenty stacked video screens simultaneously play images of the life and works of Irish writer James Joyce, like so many fragments dilated in space and time, a bridge between the viewer and Joyce's art.
Director: Jean-Paul Fargier | Star: James Joyce
30. Ti dva uprostred (1973 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Evzen Sokolovský | Stars: Josef Bek, Jan J. Vágner
31.
The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955–1957)
Episode:
Stranger in the Night
(1956)
60 min | Drama
A widow rents a cottage and forms a friendship with the ghost of the previous owner.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Michael Wilding, Tom Conway, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 26
32.
Thriller (1960–1962)
Episode:
What Beckoning Ghost?
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A woman sees her own coffin and questions her sanity. No one else sees it or hears a phantom organ in their spooky mansion. Housebound with a weak heart, tended by her sexy younger sister and ne'er-do-well husband, nothing is as it seems.
Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Boris Karloff, Judith Evelyn, Tom Helmore, Adele Mara
Votes: 170