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1. The Devils (1971)
R | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian
Votes: 18,650 | Gross: $1.13M
2. Angela's Ashes (1999)
R | 145 min | Biography, Drama
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens
Votes: 23,244 | Gross: $13.04M
3. The Scarlet and the Black (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 143 min | Drama, History, War
Vatican efforts, led by Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, to save Allied P.O.W.s and downed Allied airmen as the Nazis invade Rome.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Gregory Peck, Christopher Plummer, John Gielgud, Raf Vallone
Votes: 3,710
4. The Devil Inside (2012)
R | 83 min | Horror
In Italy, a woman becomes involved in a series of unauthorized exorcisms during her mission to discover what happened to her mother, who allegedly murdered three people during her own exorcism.
Director: William Brent Bell | Stars: Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmuth, Ionut Grama
Votes: 37,497 | Gross: $53.26M
5. Rome, Open City (1945)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Thriller, War
During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico
Votes: 28,953
6. XX: Utsukushiki karyuudo (1994 Video)
85 min | Action
Shion is the most merciless assassin of the Magnificat crime group. However, when her hand and heart hesitate to murder the man she loves, her superior marks her for death. Torn from the ... See full summary »
Director: Masaru Konuma | Stars: Makiko Kuno, Johnny Ohkura, Katsuo Tokashi, Maiko Kazama
Votes: 230
7. Point Pleasant (2005)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A series of supernatural events begins in a small coastal New Jersey town after the arrival of a mysterious teenage girl, who apparently has the ability to influence the people and events around her.
Stars: Elisabeth Harnois, Grant Show, Sam Page, Aubrey Dollar
Votes: 2,520
8. Spoor (2017)
Not Rated | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who or what is the murderer, but nobody believes her.
Directors: Agnieszka Holland, Kasia Adamik | Stars: Agnieszka Mandat, Wiktor Zborowski, Jakub Gierszal, Patricia Volny
Votes: 6,037
9. Kim (1950)
Approved | 113 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English secret service.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas
Votes: 2,257
10. Toy Soldiers (1984)
R | 85 min | Action, Drama
While on a vacation in Central America, some American teenagers are kidnapped by terrorists. A rescue mission is sent after them, but they manage to escape and join up with a mercenary fighting the terrorists.
Director: David Fisher | Stars: Jason Miller, Cleavon Little, Rodolfo de Anda, Terri Garber
Votes: 676
11. Witchcraft (1988)
R | 95 min | Horror
Grace Churchill delivers her healthy baby William and is visited by her husband John Stocton and her best friend Linda. When they leave the hospital, they go to the mansion of Grace's ... See full summary »
Director: Rob Spera | Stars: Anat Topol, Gary Sloan, Mary Shelley, Deborah Scott
Votes: 846
12. The Devil's Playground (1976)
107 min | Drama
Fred Schepisi's first feature is this lushly photographed period drama detailing a young boy's coming-of-age in a strict Catholic seminary in 1950s Australia.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Charles McCallum, John Frawley, Arthur Dignam, Nick Tate
Votes: 1,312
13. Zelary (2003)
R | 150 min | Drama, Romance, War
A nurse is part of the resistance in 1940s Czech Republic. She is discovered and must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife.
Director: Ondrej Trojan | Stars: Anna Geislerová, György Cserhalmi, Ivan Trojan, Jaroslava Adamová
Votes: 3,748 | Gross: $0.33M
14. Deadline (1980)
R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A popular horror writer whose family life is falling apart struggles to write his next horror movie.
Director: Mario Azzopardi | Stars: Stephen Young, Sharon Masters, Marvin Goldhar, Jeannie Elias
Votes: 791
15. Gun Glory (1957)
Approved | 89 min | Western
A gunfighter defends his town when cattlemen threaten to destroy it by stampeding cattle through the farmlands.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Stewart Granger, Rhonda Fleming, Chill Wills, Steve Rowland
Votes: 901
16. Requiem for a Killer (2011)
91 min | Thriller
Lucrèce, the best killer in the business, accepts a final job: eliminate an opera singer who threatens the interests of a corporation. She's hired as a contralto for a festival her target is singing in, but things don't happen as planned.
Director: Jérôme Le Gris | Stars: Mélanie Laurent, Clovis Cornillac, Tchéky Karyo, Xavier Gallais
Votes: 1,411
17. Rest in Pieces (1987)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror
A young, married couple move into the wife's aunt's estate after inheriting the sprawling property. Soon, weird occurrences begin to happen around the house, and they start to suspect the tenants are responsible.
Director: José Ramón Larraz | Stars: Scott Thompson Baker, Lorin Jean Vail, Dorothy Malone, Jack Taylor
Votes: 750
18. Cero y van 4 (2004)
R | 92 min | Crime, Comedy
This dark comedy compiles four different tales telling crime stories in the streets of Mexico City.
Directors: Carlos Carrera, Alejandro Gamboa, Fernando Sariñana, Antonio Serrano | Stars: Guillermo Iván, Juan Pablo Medina, René Campero, José Manuel Poncelis
Votes: 364
19. The Wild North (1952)
Approved | 97 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime, and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West Mounted Police.
Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Stewart Granger, Wendell Corey, Cyd Charisse, Morgan Farley
Votes: 1,077
20. Ghost of the China Sea (1958)
Unrated | 79 min | Drama, War
A ragtag band of civilians and military personnel evade the Japanese in the Philippines, utilising the so-called USS Frankenstein.
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: David Brian, Lynette Bernay, Norman Wright, Harry Chang
Votes: 90
21. Sissit (1963)
106 min | Drama, War
Lieutenant Takala joins a group of war veterans who gather in a restaurant to reminisce their unit's operations on the Finnish-Soviet front. A flashback takes us back to summer 1944 where ... See full summary »
Director: Mikko Niskanen | Stars: Matti Oravisto, Kauko Laurikainen, Paul Budsko, Heimo Lepistö
Votes: 356
22.
Maya (1967–1968)
Episode:
The Root of Evil
(1967)
60 min | Adventure
Raji urges Terry to visit a holy man for information about his missing father. While the teenagers visit his temple, a thief and his accomplice steal a golden religious statue and attack a ... See full summary »
Director: Allen Baron | Stars: Sajid Khan, Premnath Malhotra, Jay North, Bimal Raj
Votes: 6
23.
Commissaire Cordier (2005– )
Episode:
Rédemption
(2007)
96 min | Crime, Drama
The corpse of the countryside priest Vincent Merlet has been found near a river.Then the commissioner Cordier and the commander Sorenson go to the presbytery where they are received by ... See full summary »
Director: Gilles Béhat | Stars: Pierre Mondy, Yannis Baraban, Yoann Denaive, Guillaume de Tonquédec
Votes: 7
24.
From (2022– )
Episode:
All Good Things...
(2022)
TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A celebration at Colony House turns into tragedy. Khatri tries to convince Boyd to take him and Sarah with him.
Director: Jennifer Liao | Stars: Harold Perrineau, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Eion Bailey, David Alpay
Votes: 2,309
25.
The Closer (2005–2012)
Episode:
Last Rites
(2012)
Not Rated | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Brenda gets in more trouble with Pope when the Catholic Church stonewalls her investigation into a priest's murder. Meanwhile she also faces pressure at home caring for her sick father.
Director: David McWhirter | Stars: Kyra Sedgwick, J.K. Simmons, Corey Reynolds, Robert Gossett
Votes: 340
26.
Supernatural (2005–2020)
Episode:
I'm No Angel
(2013)
TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Sam and Dean track down Castiel, while Bartholomew, a new leader of the fallen angels, tries to destroy him.
Director: Kevin Hooks | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Adam J. Harrington
Votes: 3,842
27.
Sthlm Requiem (2018– )
Episode:
Blodsband: Del 1
(2018)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
A priest and his wife, who work with refugees, are murdered in their home and a series of robberies is linked to the murders, but how and why? Meanwhile, Alex's marriage is in trouble.
Directors: Karin Fahlén, Lisa Ohlin | Stars: Liv Mjönes, Jonas Karlsson, Alexej Manvelov, Magnus Roosmann
Votes: 112