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1. Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
R | 144 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Balian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the Crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Liam Neeson, Martin Hancock
Votes: 314,076 | Gross: $47.40M
2. Apocalypse Now (1979)
R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, War
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 709,243 | Gross: $83.47M
3. Apocalypto (2006)
R | 139 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, a young man is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression.
Director: Mel Gibson | Stars: Gerardo Taracena, Raoul Max Trujillo, Dalia Hernández, Rudy Youngblood
Votes: 330,914 | Gross: $50.87M
4. Conan the Barbarian (1982)
R | 129 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A powerful warrior seeks to avenge the genocide of his people and the murder of his parents at the hands of a snake cult.
Director: John Milius | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow, Sandahl Bergman
Votes: 162,338 | Gross: $39.57M
5. The Road (I) (2009)
R | 111 min | Drama, Thriller
In a dangerous post-apocalyptic world, an ailing father defends his son as they slowly travel to the sea.
Director: John Hillcoat | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall
Votes: 253,944 | Gross: $0.06M
6. Escape from New York (1981)
R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 157,239 | Gross: $25.24M
7. The Green Inferno (2013)
R | 100 min | Adventure, Horror
A group of student activists travels to the Amazon to save the rain forest and soon discover that they are not alone, and that no good deed goes unpunished.
Director: Eli Roth | Stars: Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Aaron Burns, Kirby Bliss Blanton
Votes: 49,338 | Gross: $7.19M
8. 30 Days of Night (2007)
R | 113 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
After an Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month, it is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires.
Director: David Slade | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Ben Foster
Votes: 189,203 | Gross: $39.57M
9. Hercules (I) (2014)
PG-13 | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Having endured his legendary twelve labors, Hercules, the Greek demigod, has his life as a sword-for-hire tested when the King of Thrace and his daughter seek his aid in defeating a tyrannical warlord.
Director: Brett Ratner | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, John Hurt, Ian McShane, Joseph Fiennes
Votes: 164,272 | Gross: $72.69M
10. Elizabeth (1998)
R | 124 min | Biography, Drama, History
The early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.
Director: Shekhar Kapur | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Liz Giles, Rod Culbertson, Paul Fox
Votes: 105,032 | Gross: $30.08M
11. Centurion (2010)
R | 97 min | Action, Drama, History
A splinter group of Roman soldiers fight for their lives behind enemy lines after their legion is devastated in a guerrilla attack.
Director: Neil Marshall | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko, Andreas Wisniewski
Votes: 86,316 | Gross: $7.89M
12. Ghosts of Mars (2001)
R | 98 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
In 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find that the post has become a charnel house.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Natasha Henstridge, Ice Cube, Pam Grier, Jason Statham
Votes: 57,932 | Gross: $8.43M
13. Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009 Video)
Not Rated | 92 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
When their transfer bus crashes in a West Virginia forest, a group of convicts and one a corrections officer meet a rafter who is on the run from cannibalistic hillbillies who have murdered her friends.
Director: Declan O'Brien | Stars: Tom Frederic, Janet Montgomery, Gil Kolirin, Christian Contreras
Votes: 28,811
14. No Escape (1994)
R | 118 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A soldier convicted for murdering his commanding officer is dumped and left to die on a prison island inhabited by two camps of convicts.
Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Stuart Wilson, Kevin Dillon
Votes: 22,679 | Gross: $15.34M
15. Pilgrimage (II) (2017)
Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Drama, History
In 13th-century Ireland, a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across a landscape fraught with peril.
Director: Brendan Muldowney | Stars: Tom Holland, Richard Armitage, Jon Bernthal, Nikos Karathanos
Votes: 6,420
16. 2001 Maniacs (2005)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Horror
Eight college students travelling to Florida for Spring Break stumble into a remote town in Georgia, where they are set upon by the residents.
Director: Tim Sullivan | Stars: Robert Englund, Lin Shaye, Giuseppe Andrews, Jay Gillespie
Votes: 13,280
17. The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (2009 Video)
R | 77 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
A washed-up luchador and a super-spy investigate Nazi zombies, a nefarious scientist, and a stripper with a Satanic birthmark.
Director: Rob Zombie | Stars: Joe Alaskey, Ken Foree, Sheri Moon Zombie, Tom Papa
Votes: 8,191
18. Volunteers (1985)
R | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy
1962, after Yale graduation, womanizing Lawrence flees a gambling debt that his rich dad won't pay. He takes his roomie's place as Peace Corps Volunteer in Thai Golden Triangle with 2 other PCVs. Will he survive 2 years?
Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson, Tim Thomerson
Votes: 10,501 | Gross: $19.88M
19. Survival of the Dead (2009)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
On an island off the coast of North America, local residents simultaneously fight a zombie epidemic while hoping for a cure to return their un-dead relatives back to their human state.
Director: George A. Romero | Stars: Alan Van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh, Kathleen Munroe, Joshua Peace
Votes: 22,505 | Gross: $0.10M
20. Home Movie (II) (2008)
R | 77 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
In the remote woods of Upstate New York, David and Clare Poe are attempting to live an idyllic life. However, their twin children's bizarre behavior might just tear the family apart.
Director: Christopher Denham | Stars: Lucian Maisel, Cady McClain, Adrian Pasdar, Amber Joy Williams
Votes: 4,835
21. Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977)
R | 94 min | Adventure, Horror
Photojournalist Emanuelle is joined by an anthropologist, two female missionary workers and a treacherous hunter's party in a search for an Amazon cannibal tribe long thought extinct.
Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti, Nieves Navarro, Donald O'Brien
Votes: 3,270
22. The Day (I) (2011)
R | 87 min | Action, Drama, Horror
A group of five people working to stay alive in a post-apocalyptic future discover what they think is a safe, abandoned farmhouse, but they soon find themselves fighting to stay alive as a gang of bloodthirsty predators attack.
Director: Douglas Aarniokoski | Stars: Shawn Ashmore, Brianna Barnes, Ashley Bell, Brayden Edwards
Votes: 13,303 | Gross: $0.02M
23. Killer Movie (2008)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A reality TV director copes with a spoiled celebutante and a show gone haywire when a masked killer starts bumping off the crew in this slasher-movie satire.
Director: Jeff Fisher | Stars: Paul Wesley, Kaley Cuoco, Gloria Votsis, Torrey DeVitto
Votes: 3,110
24. Jefferson in Paris (1995)
PG-13 | 139 min | Biography, Drama, History
Widower Thomas Jefferson (3rd US president 1801-09) lives in Paris 1785-90 with his daughter. He has a pretty slave girl accompany his other daughter to France. He has an alleged affair with her resulting in children.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Gwyneth Paltrow, Estelle Eonnet
Votes: 3,192 | Gross: $2.47M
25. Rituals (1977)
R | 100 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Five doctors on a wilderness outing are stalked by disfigured, crazed killers.
Director: Peter Carter | Stars: Hal Holbrook, Lawrence Dane, Robin Gammell, Ken James
Votes: 3,051
26. Cliffs of Freedom (2019)
R | 137 min | Drama
Inspired by historical events, CLIFFS OF FREEDOM is a timeless and romantic story of bravery and faith between a Greek village girl and a Turkish Ottoman Colonel during the dawn of the Greek War for Independence.
Director: Van Ling | Stars: Tania Raymonde, Jan Uddin, Raza Jaffrey, Patti LuPone
Votes: 786 | Gross: $0.07M
27. Wishcraft (2002)
R | 102 min | Horror
Bret, a smart but unsociable high school kid, receives a strange box in the mail. A note tells him it will give him three wishes, but just as his new life is beginning, someone is murdering the popular kids in strange, inventive ways.
Directors: Danny Graves, Richard Wenk | Stars: Michael Weston, Alexandra Holden, Huntley Ritter, Austin Pendleton
Votes: 2,059
28. Mohawk (2017)
91 min | Action, Drama, History
Late in the War of 1812, a young Mohawk woman and her two lovers battle a squad of American soldiers hell-bent on revenge.
Director: Ted Geoghegan | Stars: Kaniehtiio Horn, Ezra Buzzington, Eamon Farren, Justin Rain
Votes: 1,697
29. Tales of the Black Freighter (2009 Video)
R | 26 min | Animation, Short, Action
A mariner survives an attack from the dreaded pirates of the Black Freighter, but his struggle to return home to warn it has a horrific cost.
Directors: Daniel DelPurgatorio, Mike Smith | Stars: Gerard Butler, Jared Harris, Lori Tritel, Siobhan Flynn
Votes: 7,119
30. Dr. Jekyll vs. The Werewolf (1972)
Not Rated | 96 min | Horror
Paul Naschy returns as El Hombre Lobo for the sixth time as he searches for a cure to his full moon madness by visiting the grandson of the infamous Dr. Jekyll.
Director: León Klimovsky | Stars: Paul Naschy, Shirley Corrigan, Jack Taylor, Mirta Miller
Votes: 682
31. The Lady and the Duke (2001)
PG-13 | 129 min | Drama, History, Romance
During the French Revolution, a Scottish aristocrat and her former lover, the Duke of Orleans, find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Lucy Russell, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Alain Libolt, Charlotte Véry
Votes: 2,872 | Gross: $0.33M
32. Deadtime Stories: Volume 1 (2009)
Not Rated | 77 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An anthology of three horror stories presented by George Romero. In "Quota," a pair of young lovers drive to Lovers' Leap, only to be attacked by a mysterious creature. In "Wet," a lonely ... See full summary »
Directors: Michael Fischa, Jeff Monahan, Tom Savini | Stars: George A. Romero, Amy Marsalis, Marty Schiff, Antone Pagán
Votes: 704
33. Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994 Video Game)
M | Action, Fantasy, Horror
Doom 2 follows the story of Doom-Guy, killing hell creatures, for the future of mankind.
Stars: Kevin Cloud, Bobby Prince, John Romero
Votes: 3,273
34. The Legend of Lucy Keyes (2006)
R | 93 min | Drama, Thriller
An urban family leaves city life behind for the confines of rural New England. Little do they know that their new home once belonged to the Keyes family, a clan who experienced the tragic loss of their daughter some 250 years ago.
Director: John Stimpson | Stars: Julie Delpy, Justin Theroux, Brooke Adams, Mark Boone Junior
Votes: 1,619
35. Battlefield Baseball (2003)
Not Rated | 87 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
Battlefield Baseball is a tough game--it doesn't end until all the members on the opposing team are dead. In this game the Gedo High team is composed of blue-faced zombies, and their ... See full summary »
Director: Yûdai Yamaguchi | Stars: Tak Sakaguchi, Atsushi Itô, Hideo Sakaki, Yoshikazu Ebisu
Votes: 1,522
36. The Fall of Otrar (1992)
176 min | Drama, History, War
This historical epic charts political intrigue among the Kipchaks, a confederation of tribes on the steppes of central Asia, before they were overrun by Genghis Khan.
Director: Ardak Amirkulov | Stars: Dokhdurbek Kydyraliyev, Tungyshpai Zhamankulov, Bolot Beyshenaliev, Abdurashid Makhsudov
Votes: 146
37. Six She's and a He (1963)
Not Rated | 72 min | Horror
A soldier stranded on a desert island is captured by a tribe of sadistic women who torture and mutilate the men who oppose them.
Director: Richard S. Flink | Stars: Launa Hodges, Bill Rogers, Carol Wintress, Dawn Meredith
Votes: 148
38. Tales from the Tower (2001)
45 min | Drama
England's infamous Tower of London is showcased, and a history of its uses, including a prison, torture chamber and repository for the royal jewels.
Directors: Robin Bextor, Paul Bryers | Stars: Dallas Campbell, Marc Bolton, Anthony Straeger, Joseph C. Sullivan
Votes: 14
39.
Blackadder II (1986)
Episode:
Head
(1986)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Edmund is "awarded" the post of Lord High Executioner, a position which frequently results in the loss of one's own head.
Director: Mandie Fletcher | Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Tim McInnerny, Tony Robinson, Miranda Richardson
Votes: 1,115
40.
Carnivàle (2003–2005)
Episode:
Insomnia
(2003)
TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Ben tries to stave off the torments of his dreams by staying awake, but the lack of sleep is taking its toll. Meanwhile, Samson looks to drum up new business by resurrecting several ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Bender | Stars: Michael J. Anderson, Adrienne Barbeau, Patrick Bauchau, Clancy Brown
Votes: 695
41.
Rome (2005–2007)
Episode:
Caesarion
(2005)
TV-MA | 53 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Brutus gets a chilly reception from Servilia when he returns home from Greece. In Egypt, Caesar rebukes the advisers of the boy king, Ptolemy XIII, for their presumption in eliminating ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Shill | Stars: Ray Stevenson, Kevin McKidd, Polly Walker, Kenneth Cranham
Votes: 2,343
42.
Xena: Warrior Princess (1995–2001)
Episode:
The God You Know
(2001)
Not Rated | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Archangel Michael asks Xena and Gabrielle to kill Caligula, Emperor of Rome turned into a god, who is pursuing Eve and the other Elijans. When Xena arrives to Rome, Ares prevent her from ... See full summary »
Director: Garth Maxwell | Stars: Lucy Lawless, Renée O'Connor, Adrienne Wilkinson, Alexandra Tydings
Votes: 504
43.
The Pacific (2010)
Episode:
Basilone
(2010)
TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Outmanned and with supplies low, Basilone and other marines on Guadacanal rally to repel superior Japanese forces.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda, Jon Bernthal
Votes: 2,785
44.
Game of Thrones (2011–2019)
Episode:
Fire and Blood
(2011)
TV-MA | 53 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Robb vows to get revenge on the Lannisters. Jon must officially decide if his place is with Robb or the Night's Watch. Daenerys says her final goodbye to Drogo.
Director: Alan Taylor | Stars: Sean Bean, Michelle Fairley, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey
Votes: 44,309
45.
Game of Thrones (2011–2019)
Episode:
Garden of Bones
(2012)
TV-MA | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Lord Baelish arrives at Renly's camp just before he faces off against Stannis. Daenerys and her company are welcomed into the city of Qarth. Arya, Gendry, and Hot Pie find themselves imprisoned at Harrenhal.
Director: David Petrarca | Stars: Peter Dinklage, Michelle Fairley, Emilia Clarke, Aidan Gillen
Votes: 31,276
46.
Chucky (2021– )
Episode:
Doll on Doll
(2022)
TV-MA | 47 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Devon worries that Good Chucky can't be trusted; Tiffany spirals from the surprise party.
Director: Leslie Libman | Stars: Zackary Arthur, Bjorgvin Arnarson, Alyvia Alyn Lind, Brad Dourif
Votes: 981
47.
From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series (2014–2016)
Episode:
Place of Dead Roads
(2014)
TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy
The Gecko brothers and the Fuller family enter the Titty Twister and find more than they bargained for, as Seth senses his deal with Carlos may be slipping away. Meanwhile, Texas Ranger ... See full summary »
Director: Dwight H. Little | Stars: D.J. Cotrona, Zane Holtz, Eiza González, Jesse Garcia
Votes: 640
48.
Westworld (2016–2022)
Episode:
Trompe L'Oeil
(2016)
TV-MA | 56 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Dolores, William and Lawrence journey into treacherous terrain; Maeve presents her demand; Bernard considers his next move.
Director: Frederick E.O. Toye | Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Jeffrey Wright, James Marsden
Votes: 21,466
49.
The Walking Dead (2010–2022)
Episode:
Sing Me a Song
(2016)
TV-MA | 62 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
As Eugene and Rosita head to the bullet factory, Rick and Aaron search for supplies for Negan. Meanwhile, Carl and Jesus find themselves on their way to the Sanctuary.
Director: Rosemary Rodriguez | Stars: Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Lauren Cohan, Chandler Riggs
Votes: 12,358
50.
Wolf Creek (2016–2017)
Episode:
Salt Lake
(2016)
TV-MA | 50 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
At Salt Lake, Eve is attacked by Kevin; Hill, Taylor and the bikies search for Eve at the Face of the Madonna Roadhouse.
Director: Tony Tilse | Stars: John Jarratt, Lucy Fry, Kosta Keriac, Patrick Graham
Votes: 297