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1. John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
R | 169 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.
Director: Chad Stahelski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, George Georgiou, Lance Reddick
Votes: 335,228 | Gross: $187.13M
2. The Mist (2007)
R | 126 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A freak storm unleashes a species of bloodthirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives.
Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Andre Braugher
Votes: 341,079 | Gross: $25.59M
3. Oblivion (I) (2013)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A veteran assigned to extract Earth's remaining resources begins to question what he knows about his mission and himself.
Director: Joseph Kosinski | Stars: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Andrea Riseborough, Olga Kurylenko
Votes: 553,774 | Gross: $89.02M
4. Skyfall (2012)
PG-13 | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Judi Dench
Votes: 731,774 | Gross: $304.36M
5. Chappie (2015)
R | 120 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In the near future, crime is patrolled by a mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself.
Director: Neill Blomkamp | Stars: Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver
Votes: 270,024 | Gross: $31.57M
6. Inferno (I) (2016)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Dr. Sienna Brooks and they race across Europe together against the clock to foil a deadly global plot.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Irrfan Khan, Ben Foster
Votes: 189,963 | Gross: $34.34M
7. The Monuments Men (2014)
PG-13 | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, War
An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from German thieves and return them to their owners.
Director: George Clooney | Stars: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett
Votes: 141,410 | Gross: $78.03M
8. The Train (1964)
Not Rated | 133 min | Action, Thriller, War
In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon
Votes: 18,959 | Gross: $7.41M
9. Mr. Turner (2014)
R | 150 min | Biography, Drama, History
An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner's life.
Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey
Votes: 27,200 | Gross: $3.96M
10. Auction (2024)
91 min | Drama
André Masson, specialist in modern art, receives a letter according to which a painting by Egon Schiele had been discovered in Mulhouse. He finds that the work has been missing since 1939. This discovery puts his career in danger.
Director: Pascal Bonitzer | Stars: Alex Lutz, Léa Drucker, Nora Hamzawi, Louise Chevillotte
Votes: 100
11. Postcards from London (2018)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
A stylish, sexy film about a young man's journey into an unusual form of escort work, set in an imaginary vision of London's Soho.
Director: Steve McLean | Stars: Harris Dickinson, Jonah Hauer-King, Alessandro Cimadamore, Leonardo Salerni
Votes: 1,331 | Gross: $0.01M
12. Cat's Eye (1983–1985)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
In the search for their missing father, a trio of sisters lead a double life as owners of a cafe and as highly skilled art thieves.
Stars: Keiko Toda, Toshiko Fujita, Chika Sakamoto, Yoshito Yasuhara
Votes: 1,042
13. Crown for Christmas (2015 TV Movie)
TV-G | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
After getting fired from her job as a maid at a ritzy New York City hotel, Allie reluctantly accepts a temporary gig as the governess to a young girl who is part of a powerful family in Europe that lives in a castle.
Director: Alex Zamm | Stars: Danica McKellar, Rupert Penry-Jones, Ellie Botterill, Pavel Douglas
Votes: 5,652
14. Something in the Air (2012)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama
In the months after the heady weeks of May '68, a group of young Europeans search for a way to continue the revolution believed to be just beginning.
Director: Olivier Assayas | Stars: Clément Métayer, André Marcon, Lola Créton, Felix Armand
Votes: 4,717 | Gross: $0.07M
15. Landscape Artist of the Year (2015– )
Reality-TV
A British television competition for landscape painters that earns the winners a commission and art supplies.
Stars: Tai Shan Schierenberg, Kathleen Soriano, Kate Bryan, Joan Bakewell
Votes: 150
16. Never a Dull Moment (1968)
G | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
Actor Jack Albany, who plays gangsters on TV, is mistaken for notorious hit-man Ace, and is hired by mob boss Leo Smooth to pull a heist, but Jack must find a way out of it.
Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Edward G. Robinson, Dorothy Provine, Henry Silva
Votes: 797
17. Invisible Ghost (1941)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Polly Ann Young, John McGuire, Clarence Muse
Votes: 2,597
18. Illegal (1955)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After an overly aggressive district attorney unknowingly sends an innocent man to the chair, he resigns, turns to drinking, and acquires a criminal clientèle.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe, Jayne Mansfield
Votes: 2,339
19. 40-Love (2021)
98 min | Comedy, Sport
22 year old Beek, a math whiz just fired from a McJob, drives 1679 miles to NYC to unsolicited advice a cute Russian top tennis player. A girl artist joins him on the way.
Director: Fred Wolf | Stars: Jasjit Williams, Katerina Tannenbaum, Alena Savostikova, Tommy Flanagan
Votes: 332
20. The Painting (2011)
TV-PG | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Three characters of different social classes escape their unfinished painting in search of the Painter, hoping he will complete it.
Director: Jean-François Laguionie | Stars: Jean Barney, Chloé Berthier, JB Blanc, Steve Blum
Votes: 4,530 | Gross: $0.01M
21. Wrapped Up in Christmas (2017 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A mall manager is tasked with cancelling the leases of underperforming stores at Christmas. She soon discovers that she's falling for a store owner's nephew as he helps his aunt try to get through the holidays.
Director: Peter Sullivan | Stars: Tatyana Ali, Brendan Fehr, Kim Fields, Cindy Pickett
Votes: 951
22. The Dragon Painter (1919)
TV-PG | 53 min | Drama, Romance
A wild man and genius becomes a master painter's disciple, but loses his divine gift when he finds love.
Director: William Worthington | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Edward Peil Sr., Toyo Fujita
Votes: 682
23. A Sunday in the Country (1984)
G | 90 min | Drama
An elderly painter whose son visits with his family on the weekends, is also surprised by a visit from his still-single daughter.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Louis Ducreux, Michel Aumont, Sabine Azéma, Geneviève Mnich
Votes: 3,133 | Gross: $2.41M
24. Me and Kaminski (2015)
124 min | Comedy, Drama
Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on his article.
Director: Wolfgang Becker | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Jesper Christensen, Amira Casar, Geraldine Chaplin
Votes: 1,530
25. Tim's Vermeer (2013)
PG-13 | 80 min | Documentary, History
Inventor Tim Jenison seeks to understand the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer.
Director: Teller | Stars: Tim Jenison, Penn Jillette, Martin Mull, Philip Steadman
Votes: 8,560 | Gross: $1.66M
26. 12 Gifts of Christmas (2015 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Family, Romance
With just two weeks left until Christmas, a busy marketing executive hires a struggling artist-turned-personal shopper to help him buy gifts for his friends and family.
Director: Peter Sullivan | Stars: Katrina Law, Aaron O'Connell, Donna Mills, Melanie Nelson
Votes: 5,214
27. Thunderbird 6 (1968)
G | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Several members of the International Rescue crew attend the maiden flight of Brains' revolutionary craft Skyship One, unaware that they are being lured into a deadly trap.
Director: David Lane | Stars: Peter Dyneley, Sylvia Anderson, Shane Rimmer, Jeremy Wilkin
Votes: 1,619
28. Carnival in Flanders (1935)
95 min | Comedy, History, Romance
Tells the story of the Spanish invasion of Flanders
Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Françoise Rosay, André Alerme, Jean Murat, Louis Jouvet
Votes: 1,407
29. The Oval Portrait (1973)
86 min | Horror
A woman finds herself possessed by the soul of another woman trapped inside a painting.
Director: Rogelio A. González | Stars: Wanda Hendrix, Barry Coe, Gisele MacKenzie, Maray Ayres
Votes: 64
30. Bosch: The Garden of Dreams (2016)
90 min | Documentary
It's a documentary of the painting by "The Bosch", "The garden of early delights".
Director: José Luis López-Linares | Stars: Sílvia Pérez Cruz, Ludovico Einaudi, Orhan Pamuk, Miquel Barceló
Votes: 406
31. God v. Satan: The Final Battle (2008 TV Movie)
100 min | Documentary, History
Christians, Jews and Muslims believe there will a final battle between God and Satan. Believers and scholars are interviewed. Artwork and staged reenactments depict the end times.
Director: Lisa Quijano Wolfinger | Stars: Avery Brooks, Jonathan Kirsch, Paul S. Boyer, Hassan Qazwini
Votes: 99
32. Rattle-Can (2021)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A reclusive college student finds social media fame as a disguised street artist who reveals his story through vandalism.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Kyle Abraham, Shawn Abraham, Hannah Bailey, Rebecca Bottorff
Votes: 70
33. The Power of Nonsense (2017 Video)
Documentary, Short
Kraut and Tea explains why nonsense can be a powerful tool against repressive regimes, but a sinister bludgeon when wielded by the bullies themselves.
Director: Kraut and Tea | Stars: Chanty Binx, Hillary Clinton, Adolf Hitler, Kraut and Tea
34. Those of Our Land (1915)
44 min | Documentary, Short
With family connections to some famous French artists, writers, and musicians of the time, Sacha Guitry decided to film the individuals in action, to celebrate the greatness of his culture, threatened by Germany in the ongoing Great War.
Directors: Sacha Guitry, Frédéric Rossif | Stars: André Antoine, Lysiane Bernhardt, Sarah Bernhardt, Edgar Degas
Votes: 98
35. From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain (1944)
58 min | Documentary, History
Sitting at his desk, Guitry gives us a lecture on French history from Joan of Arc to the Occupation, with some focus on a number of its great writers and musicians.
Director: Sacha Guitry | Stars: Sacha Guitry, Michèle Alfa, Aimé Clariond, Jean Cocteau
Votes: 34
36. The Wizard of Arts (1941)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A Jerry Colonna-like artist takes us on a tour of a wacky museum.
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Thomas Johnson | Star: Jack Mercer
Votes: 32
37. Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali (2008 Video)
20 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary analyzing the surrealist elements of the film Spellbound, and the work made by Salvador Dalí in that film.
Director: Lisa Van Eyssen | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Peter Bogdanovich, Lesley Brill, Royal S. Brown
Votes: 19
38. Swing Cleaning (1941)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The king allows Gabby to take over the supervision of the castle's spring cleaning with disastrous results.
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Jack Mercer
Votes: 139
39. The Eyes of Bierstadt (2016)
9 min | Short
A short documentary which encapsulates the life of the 19th century American landscape artist, Albert Bierstadt, a man with a passion for nature, the outdoors, and wildlife. He brought it all to life in his remarkable paintings.
Director: R. Christian Anderson
40. A Leak in the Dike (1965)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Jacky's Whacky World presents the story of the little Dutch boy who put his finger in the dike.
Directors: Jack Mendelsohn, Martin Taras | Star: Bob McFadden
Votes: 14
41.
Omnibus (1967–2003)
Episode:
Patricia Cornwell: Stalking the Ripper
(2002)
Not Rated | Documentary, Biography, Music
Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell attempts to prove that Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper.
Stars: Patricia Cornwell, Linda Fairstein, Paul Ferrara, Marcella Fierro
Votes: 27
42.
21 Jump Street (1987–1991)
Episode:
Eternal Flame
(1989)
TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Hanson goes undercover in a night club suspected of selling drugs.
Director: Mario Van Peebles | Stars: Johnny Depp, Holly Robinson Peete, Peter DeLuise, Dustin Nguyen
Votes: 123
43.
The A-Team (1983–1987)
Episode:
Beverly Hills Assault
(1985)
TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
When Paris-trained painter Steven "Speed" Miller disappears (actually he's beaten into hospital for refusing to work on command), his painting friend Peggy and her best friend who never ... See full summary »
Director: Craig R. Baxley | Stars: George Peppard, Dirk Benedict, Dwight Schultz, Mr. T
Votes: 290
44.
All Creatures Great and Small (1978–1990)
Episode:
Pride of Possession
(1978)
TV-PG | 50 min | Comedy, Drama
James calls on Mr. Partridge who has a sick dog, Percy. James suggests that Percy undergo medical treatment rather than surgery but the medication has an unusual side effect. James notices ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Barry | Stars: Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy, Peter Davison, Carol Drinkwater
Votes: 89
45.
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)
Episode:
Detained
(2002)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Archer and Mayweather are captured by the Tandarans and placed in a Suliban internment camp.
Director: David Livingston | Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating
Votes: 1,717
46.
Gilmore Girls (2000–2007)
Episode:
Friday Night's Alright for Fighting
(2006)
TV-PG | 45 min | Comedy, Drama
Lorelai and Rory go to the Gilmore mansion for Friday night dinner, and there is a fight. Luke is still getting to know April.
Director: Kenny Ortega | Stars: Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Melissa McCarthy, Scott Patterson
Votes: 1,321
47.
Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971)
Episode:
Klink's Masterpiece
(1970)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, War
Hogan convinces Klink that he is a great artist so that he can make a rendezvous in an art gallery.
Director: Richard Kinon | Stars: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary
Votes: 165
48.
Mission: Impossible (1966–1973)
Episode:
The Reluctant Dragon
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The IM force seeks to smuggle an valuable scientist, with the help of his wife, out from behind the iron curtain. Soon, they discover he doesn't want to leave, and have to change plans to convince him otherwise.
Director: Leonard J. Horn | Stars: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus
Votes: 295
49.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Space Seed
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
While on patrol in deep space, Captain Kirk and his crew find and revive a genetically-engineered world conqueror and his compatriots from Earth's Twentieth Century.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalban, Madlyn Rhue
Votes: 5,421
50.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
11001001
(1988)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Enterprise docks at a starbase for repairs where it is commandeered by a race of technologically-linked aliens intent on using the vessel for their own purposes.
Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby
Votes: 4,101