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1. The Beast (2023)
146 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
In the near future artificial intelligence is in control of everyone's lives and human emotions are perceived as a threat.
Director: Bertrand Bonello | Stars: Léa Seydoux, George MacKay, Guslagie Malanda, Dasha Nekrasova
Votes: 2,275
2. Midway (1976)
PG | 132 min | Action, Drama, History
A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford
Votes: 21,564
3. Human Desire (1954)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in an affair with a co-worker's wife following a murder on a train where they meet.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan
Votes: 6,391
4. Words and Pictures (2013)
PG-13 | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Clive Owen, Juliette Binoche, Bruce Davison, Amy Brenneman
Votes: 11,442 | Gross: $2.17M
5. Fatal Instinct (1993)
PG-13 | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A cop who moonlights as a lawyer cheats on his wife, not knowing that she's cheating on him and plans to kill him for the insurance.
Director: Carl Reiner | Stars: Armand Assante, Sherilyn Fenn, Kate Nelligan, Sean Young
Votes: 8,110 | Gross: $7.85M
6. Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)
Unrated | 105 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The venerated filmmaker Eisenstein is comparable in talent, insight and wisdom, with the likes of Shakespeare or Beethoven; there are few - if any - directors who can be elevated to such ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Elmer Bäck, Luis Alberti, Maya Zapata, Lisa Owen
Votes: 3,109 | Gross: $0.03M
7. Leonie (2010)
PG-13 | 102 min | Biography, Drama
A film about the life and relationships of the early 20th century American educator, editor, and journalist Leonie Gilmour, the mother of the acclaimed artist and architect Isamu Noguchi.
Director: Hisako Matsui | Stars: Emily Mortimer, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Shidô Nakamura, Christina Hendricks
Votes: 613
8. The Toll of the Sea (1922)
Unrated | 54 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
While visiting China, an American man falls in love with a young Chinese woman, but he then has second thoughts about the relationship.
Director: Chester M. Franklin | Stars: Anna May Wong, Kenneth Harlan, Beatrice Bentley, Priscilla Moran
Votes: 902
9. Comrade X (1940)
Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Romance
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oscar Homolka, Felix Bressart
Votes: 1,839
10. La prima (2018)
TV-PG | 94 min | Comedy
A woman seeks love and is not sexually satisfied by her husband. At one point, he leaves her alone for a while and her young, handsome and successful cousin seduces her.
Director: Víctor Ugalde | Stars: Natasha Esca, Mark Tacher, Isabel Madow, Jesús Ochoa
Votes: 109
11. Lady from Chungking (1942)
Approved | 66 min | Drama, War
After the Japanese invade China in WW 2, a young woman leads a band of partisans against the occupying troops.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Anna May Wong, Harold Huber, Mae Clarke, Rick Vallin
Votes: 349
12. The Pad (and How to Use It) (1966)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy
Shy bachelor Bob asks his best friend Ted to keep him company during his first date in his pad with the girl he met at a classical concert and fell in love with. However, Ted also likes her and the date goes terribly wrong for Bob.
Director: Brian G. Hutton | Stars: Brian Bedford, Julie Sommars, James Farentino, Edy Williams
Votes: 142
13. Radiance (1998)
83 min | Drama
Three sisters reunite after some years apart, for their mother's funeral. Cressy (Maza), the eldest of the three, is a diva - an opera singer who is reluctant to visit the past and ... See full summary »
Director: Rachel Perkins | Stars: Deborah Mailman, Trisha Morton-Thomas, Rachael Maza, Russell Kiefel
Votes: 353
14. Bozská Ema (1979)
PG | 110 min | Biography, Drama
The opera lady singer Ema Destinnová (Bozidara Turzonovová) is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe there rages war and she decides to return home to Bohemia. As an ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Krejcík | Stars: Bozidara Turzonovová, Gabriela Benacková, Juraj Kukura, Jirí Adamíra
Votes: 116
16.
Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
Episode:
The Settling of the Sun
(1988)
TV-MA | 144 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Because Morse is a speaker at a University dinner when a Japanese becomes ill and is later found ritualistically murdered, he becomes everyone's alibi.
Director: Peter Hammond | Stars: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Anna Calder-Marshall, Robert Stephens
Votes: 944
17.
Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
Episode:
The Wolvercote Tongue
(1987)
TV-14 | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
During an exclusive tour an elderly woman dies suddenly and the priceless piece of Medieval jewellery she was going to donate to a local museum vanishes.
Director: Alastair Reid | Stars: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Simon Callow, Kenneth Cranham
Votes: 963
18.
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993–1997)
Episode:
Fly Hard
(1994)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Armed criminals invade the Daily Planet, taking everyone inside hostage, including Clark, Lois, Perry, and Lex Luthor. Clark is unable to use his powers for fear that he will put the others in danger.
Director: Philip Sgriccia | Stars: Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher, Lane Smith, Michael Landes
Votes: 340
19.
Gino's Italian Escape (2013– )
Episode:
Gino's Italian Express: The Renaissance Rail Route (Pisa - Florence)
(2020)
23 min | Documentary, Adventure, Comedy
Gino visits Pisa, the home of the leaning tower and Vespa, cooks two asparagus dishes for a violin maker in Lucca, the home of Puccini, and prepares chicken thighs in beer sauce with a cooking teacher in the city of culture, Florence.
Star: Gino D'Acampo
20.
Ils étaient dix (2020)
Episode:
Épisode 6
(2020)
52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
And then there were three: two of them fall in love but both have something on their conscience and besides: they suspect each other of being the criminal; the police arrive on the island--will they save the surviving guests?
Director: Pascal Laugier | Stars: Samuel Le Bihan, Guillaume de Tonquédec, Marianne Denicourt, Romane Bohringer
Votes: 52
21.
Télé notre histoire (1999–2004)
Episode:
Jacqueline Joubert
(1999)
54 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Dominique Froissant | Star: Jacqueline Joubert
22.
Beautiful Excursions (2006– )
Episode:
La Slovénie, la nature au coeur
(2021)
91 min | Documentary
Slovenia, nature at its heart: Slovenia, home to an impressive diversity of landscapes: forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and Mediterranean coastline. Hardly surprising that its population ... See full summary »
Director: Franck Poirier | Stars: Jérôme Pitorin, Sabina Cvilak
23.
The Newsroom (2012–2014)
Episode:
Bullies
(2012)
TV-MA | 58 min | Drama
As Will deals with insomnia and online death threats, Sloan's frustrating interview with a Japanese nuclear rep about the Fukushima disaster gets her in major trouble.
Director: Jeremy Podeswa | Stars: Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher Jr., Alison Pill
Votes: 1,914
24.
Castle (2009–2016)
Episode:
The Squab and the Quail
(2013)
TV-PG | 42 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Castle is jealous when Beckett has to protect a billionaire from an unknown killer. Castle wants to solve the case fast because it means Beckett will no longer have to be with the charming entrepreneur.
Director: Paul Holahan | Stars: Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic, Susan Sullivan, Jon Huertas
Votes: 1,218
25.
Castle (2009–2016)
Episode:
The Way of the Ninja
(2014)
TV-14 | 43 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Investigating the killing of a Japanese ballerina, Castle and Beckett find a shrine with the murder weapon in an old factory. Then, when the two are separated, Castle is ambushed by a hooded attacker bearing all the hallmarks of a ninja.
Director: Larry Shaw | Stars: Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic, Susan Sullivan, Jon Huertas
Votes: 1,044
26.
Partners in Crime (2015)
Episode:
The Secret Adversary: Part 1
(2015)
56 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Tommy and Tuppence have a chance encounter on a train with an agitated young woman who suddenly disappears and never returns to her seat.
Director: Edward Hall | Stars: Camilla Beeput, Jessica Raine, David Walliams, George Taylor
Votes: 348
27.
Alex, Inc. (2018)
Episode:
The Butterfly Pavilion
(2018)
TV-PG | 21 min | Comedy
Ben takes up the guitar and wants to musically support his Dad's podcast; Alex boils over with his cousin, Eddie, for a lifetime of making decisions for him; Rooni wants to be a bigger part... See full summary »
Director: Richie Keen | Stars: Zach Braff, Tiya Sircar, Hillary Anne Matthews, Elisha Henig
Votes: 86