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1. Citizen Kane (1941)

PG | 119 min | Drama, Mystery

Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'

Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead

Votes: 467,163 | Gross: $1.59M

2. Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

PG | 130 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

A few decades after her original visit, Mary Poppins, the magical nanny, returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives.

Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer

Votes: 95,475 | Gross: $171.96M

3. The Elephant Man (1980)

PG | 124 min | Biography, Drama

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud

Votes: 259,196

4. Forgotten (2017)

TV-MA | 108 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

When his abducted brother returns seemingly a different man with no memory of the past 19 days, Jin-seok chases after the truth behind the kidnapping.

Director: Jang Hang-jun | Stars: Kang Ha-neul, Yeon Je Hyung, Kim Mu-yeol, Nam Myung-ryul

Votes: 46,637

5. The Illusionist (2006)

PG-13 | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

In turn-of-the-century Vienna, a magician uses his abilities to secure the love of a woman far above his social standing.

Director: Neil Burger | Stars: Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, Paul Giamatti, Rufus Sewell

Votes: 390,301 | Gross: $39.87M

6. Sexy Sisters (1977)

Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama

Edna confines Millie, her younger sister, to her bed while she is sedated. If Edna can show Millie is insane, she will be able to claim a estate for herself. However, Millie learns Edna's malicious schemes.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Pamela Stanford, Karine Gambier, Jack Taylor, Esther Moser

Votes: 798

7. Gaslight (1944)

Passed | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Ten years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the home rises from a secret that may require driving his wife insane.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, May Whitty

Votes: 34,096

8. Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)

PG-13 | 109 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery

When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins

Votes: 23,468 | Gross: $19.74M

9. Murder by Decree (1979)

PG | 124 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Sherlock Holmes investigates the murders commited by Jack the Ripper and discovers a conspiracy to protect the killer.

Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings, Susan Clark

Votes: 6,644

10. House of Wax (1953)

GP | 88 min | Horror

An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones

Votes: 20,322 | Gross: $23.75M

11. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

Passed | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.

Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer

Votes: 27,759 | Gross: $7.57M

12. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

Director: Albert Lewin | Stars: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury

Votes: 14,504

13. 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: 20,959

14. Diabolique (1996)

R | 107 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

The wife and mistress of the sadistic dean of an exclusive prep school conspire to murder him.

Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik | Stars: Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri, Kathy Bates

Votes: 15,420 | Gross: $17.10M

15. Murderous Intent (2006)

PG-13 | 110 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A forensic psychologist (Collette) is tasked with determining whether or not a minor should face murder charges for killing his schoolmate.

Director: Gregory Read | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Tom Sturridge, Toni Collette, Richard Roxburgh

Votes: 5,540

16. Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971)

PG | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A Victorian scientist tests a serum that transforms him into a sensuous murderess.

Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick, Gerald Sim, Lewis Fiander

Votes: 3,831 | Gross: $0.20M

17. Pygmalion (1938)

89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.

Directors: Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard | Stars: Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson, Marie Lohr

Votes: 9,695 | Gross: $3.05M

18. Gaslight (1940)

Not Rated | 84 min | Mystery, Thriller

Twenty years after the murder of Alice Barlow, her house is finally occupied again. However, the husband from the couple who have moved in has a secret which he will do anything to keep hidden.

Director: Thorold Dickinson | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell

Votes: 5,315

19. The Suspect (1944)

Passed | 85 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

An unhappily married man begins a flirtation with a younger woman. When his wife threatens to ruin her, he decides to take action.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, Dean Harens, Stanley Ridges

Votes: 3,578

20. My Father's Glory (1990)

G | 105 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

At the end of the nineteenth century, little Marcel lives with his parents in the Provence countryside. During his holiday, Marcel meets Lili, a local boy who knows all the secrets of the hills, and the two become fast friends.

Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain, Thérèse Liotard

Votes: 7,079 | Gross: $1.71M

21. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Romance

A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.

Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet

Votes: 13,686

22. The Life of Emile Zola (1937)

Passed | 116 min | Biography, Drama

The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden

Votes: 9,058

23. Man in the Attic (1953)

Approved | 82 min | Mystery, Thriller

After an enigmatic, self-described pathologist rents the attic room of a Victorian house, his landlady begins to suspect her lodger is Jack the Ripper.

Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer, Frances Bavier

Votes: 1,995

24. Jack the Ripper (1959)

Not Rated | 84 min | Crime, Drama, History

A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.

Directors: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman | Stars: Lee Patterson, Eddie Byrne, Betty McDowall, Ewen Solon

Votes: 971

25. The Valley of Decision (1945)

Passed | 119 min | Drama, Romance

An Irish maid falls for the son of her wealthy boss, though their disapproving fathers and a bitter strike at the steel mill complicate matters.

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, Donald Crisp, Lionel Barrymore

Votes: 2,383

26. Waterloo Bridge (1931)

81 min | Drama, Romance

A prostitute's self-loathing makes her reluctant to marry an idealistic soldier during World War I.

Director: James Whale | Stars: Mae Clarke, Douglass Montgomery, Doris Lloyd, Frederick Kerr

Votes: 3,175

27. Carrie (1952)

Approved | 118 min | Drama, Romance

A young girl from a provincial town learns the bitter reality of a big city and great love.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins, Eddie Albert

Votes: 2,737

28. Ivy (1947)

Approved | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

An Edwardian belle meets a rich bachelor, but what to do about her husband and her lover?

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Patric Knowles, Herbert Marshall, Richard Ney

Votes: 1,121

29. The Snorkel (1958)

Not Rated | 74 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

Although the police have termed her mother's death a suicide, a teenage girl believes her step-father murdered her.

Director: Guy Green | Stars: Peter van Eyck, Betta St. John, Mandy Miller, Grégoire Aslan

Votes: 1,807

30. Chamber of Horrors (1966)

Unrated | 80 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

A one-handed madman uses various detachable devices as murder weapons to gain revenge on those he believes have wronged him.

Director: Hy Averback | Stars: Patrick O'Neal, Cesare Danova, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Laura Devon

Votes: 1,433

31. That Forsyte Woman (1949)

Passed | 113 min | Drama, Romance

Love among the Forsytes is strange, full of tradition, melancholy and gold digging in this film treatise on Victorian-age rigidity and vestiges of a flawed society.

Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Young

Votes: 1,505

32. The Sidewalks of London (1938)

Approved | 85 min | Comedy

Pickpocket Libby gets support from street performer Charles, and her dancing leads to her invitation to theater patron Harley's party which in turn launches Libby's stage career while Charles keeps on struggling in the streets.

Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Larry Adler

Votes: 1,477

33. Portrait of Beauty (2019)

127 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Receiving important news about her father, whom she has not met for years, Nisan returns to her father's house with her husband and daughter. There are strange things happening in this ... See full summary »

Director: Umur Turagay | Stars: Burçin Terzioglu, Birkan Sokullu, Melisa Senolsun, Serkan Keskin

Votes: 3,191

34. The Killer Next Door (2019 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 90 min | Drama, Thriller

Years after the death of her husband, Julie Caster moves across the country to start a new life with her young son, only to realize that someone carries a dangerous obsession with her and her son.

Director: Ben Meyerson | Stars: Andrea Bogart, Hannah Barefoot, John-Michael Carlton, Lisa Long

Votes: 446

35. The Hour of 13 (1952)

Approved | 80 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

A jewel thief tries to mislead police who suspect that his theft of a valuable emerald is related to the serial murder of 11 policemen.

Director: Harold French | Stars: Peter Lawford, Dawn Addams, Roland Culver, Derek Bond

Votes: 394

36. Is My Daughter Really Dead? (2019)

TV-14 | 84 min | Thriller

Olivia struggles to sort out truth from fiction after her daughter mysteriously vanishes during a camping trip with the new neighbors.

Director: Colin Edward Lawrence | Stars: Zoe McLellan, Stephanie Charles, Matthew Pohlkamp, Mike Erwin

Votes: 374

37. Roughly Speaking (1945)

Approved | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Determined to overcome poverty, Louise Randall attends business school and weds Rodney Crane. Her driven nature leads to marital breakdown. She navigates career growth and family life with new spouse Harold, striving for a better future.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Jack Carson, Robert Hutton, Jean Sullivan

Votes: 882

38. Sal Azul (2023)

16+ | 82 min | Drama

A toxic couple relationship makes Connie believe that she was gone crazy, until she discovers that she has been manipulated by her partner Vic, who hides a dark truth from her.

Director: Alejandro Cervantes Polanco | Stars: Charlie Blackwood, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Enrique Arreola, Kerry Ardra

39. The Klatos Paradox (2020)

117 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

An incompetent time traveler must team up with his unpredictable alternate self, to fix a paradox which is now slowly destroying the universe.

Director: Mars Fargo | Stars: Mars Fargo, Kennedi Hobbs, Reagan Kacmar, Blake Laisure

Votes: 94

40. The Baltimore Plan (1953)

Not Rated | 20 min | Documentary, Short

Documentary concerning Baltimore's efforts at urban renewal with an emphasis on improving housing in the city's slums.

Director: John Barnes

41. The Last Advil

25 min | Short | Announced

Two roommates must get through a day with their toxic friend Charles, as they put on a party for the massive bottle of Advil they recently finished.

Director: Jake Shiptenko | Stars: Natalie Shaw, Claire Culley, Alex Grimm, Aris Federman

42. Barbara (2021)

24 min | Short, Drama

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Directors: Welyton Crestani, Gui Morilha | Stars: Carol Scabora, Adolfo Tortelli, Guilherme Zanin

43. Turtle Soup (2022)

11 min | Short, Horror

Barb, an emotionally unstable mother, attempts to leave her family after she accuses her husband Ken of cooking their pet turtle and feeding it to her and their infant, however she is ... See full summary »

Director: Charlie Gudgeon | Stars: Owen Bishop, Lucy McNulty

44. Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (2000–2001)
Episode: The Kingdom of Bones (2001)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A museum curator hires two professors (one being Dr. Joseph Bell) to publicly unwrap an Egyptian mummy, but it proves to be a man's three-week-old corpse.

Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Miles Richardson, Charles Edwards, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Ben Macleod

Votes: 348

45. Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (2000–2001)
Episode: The Photographer's Chair (2001)

PG-13 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle and his mentor Dr. Joseph Bell investigate the strangulation deaths of two persons found floating in the river, as Doyle finds himself captivated by spiritualism.

Director: Paul Marcus | Stars: Charles Edwards, Claire Harman, Henry Goodman, Paul McNeilly

Votes: 369

46. Partners in Crime (1983–1984)
Episode: The Clergyman's Daughter (1983)

TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After a young woman's inherited manor house appears to be haunted, but Tommy and Tuppence try to prove the poltergeist to be corporeal.

Director: Paul Annett | Stars: Francesca Annis, James Warwick, Jane Booker, Reece Dinsdale

Votes: 118

47. NewsRadio (1995–1999)
Episode: Security Door (1998)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

Because things have been disappearing from his desk, Dave has a card-operated security door installed at the station entrance. Meanwhile, Bill is hired to do a TV commercial for a blue-jean company.

Director: Tom Cherones | Stars: Dave Foley, Stephen Root, Andy Dick, Maura Tierney

Votes: 492

48. Sanford (1980–1981)
Episode: Gaslight (1981)

Comedy

Suffering from a virus, a delirious Fred misunderstands an overheard conversation and now fears Cal is plotting to kill him.

Director: Jim Drake | Stars: Redd Foxx, Dennis Burkley, LaWanda Page, Marguerite Ray

Votes: 20

49. Mind Wide Open with Lily Cornell Silver (2020– )
Episode: Robin Stern (2020)

22 min | Talk-Show

Lily Cornell Silver talks with Robin Stern, Ph.D, author of the critically acclaimed books "The Gaslight Effect" and "Project Rebirth" about the concept of gaslighting and how to handle it.

Stars: Lily Cornell Silver, Robin Stern

50. The Regency House Party (2004– )
Episode: Forbidden Love (2004)

Documentary, History, Reality-TV

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Stars: Richard E. Grant, Chris Gorell Barnes, Lisa Braund, James Carrington