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1. The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)

R | 81 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

In an abandoned house in Poughkeepsie, New York murder investigators uncover hundreds of tapes showing decades of a serial killer's work.

Director: John Erick Dowdle | Stars: Stacy Chbosky, Ben Messmer, Samantha Robson, Ivar Brogger

Votes: 24,668

2. Lady in White (1988)

PG-13 | 113 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

An author tells the story of how, as a young boy growing up in a 1960s small town, he was haunted after witnessing the murder of a little girl.

Director: Frank LaLoggia | Stars: Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco, Katherine Helmond

Votes: 8,040 | Gross: $1.71M

3. Scarlet Street (1945)

Approved | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay

Votes: 19,160

4. Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)

R | 117 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Years before Father Lankester Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil's soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa. Merrin's initial battle with Pazuzu leads to the rediscovery of his faith.

Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Gabriel Mann, Clara Bellar, Billy Crawford

Votes: 13,556 | Gross: $0.25M

5. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

Unrated | 116 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband who believes he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier.

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas

Votes: 11,081

6. ABCs of Death 2 (2014)

Not Rated | 125 min | Comedy, Horror

Another 26-chapter anthology that showcases death in all its vicious wonder and brutal beauty.

Directors: Rodney Ascher, Julian Barratt, Robert Boocheck, Alejandro Brugués, Kristina Buozyte, Alexandre Bustillo, Larry Fessenden, Julian Gilbey, Jim Hosking, Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen, E.L. Katz, Aharon Keshales, Steven Kostanski, Marvin Kren, Juan Martínez Moreno, Erik Matti, Wolfgang Matzl, Julien Maury, Robert Morgan, Chris Nash, Vincenzo Natali, Hajime Ohata, Navot Papushado, Bill Plympton, Dennison Ramalho, Todd Rohal, Jerome Sable, Bruno Samper, Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska, Sôichi Umezawa | Stars: Eric Jacobus, Andy Nyman, Simon Barrett, Teela LaRoux

Votes: 9,142 | Gross: $0.01M

7. Josie (2018)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Thriller

Hank, a solitary man living a dull existence in the sleepy, Southern town raises eyebrows when he develops a questionable relationship with Josie, a recently transplanted high school student.

Director: Eric England | Stars: Sophie Turner, Dylan McDermott, Kurt Fuller, Jack Kilmer

Votes: 3,512

8. Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)

Not Rated | 173 min | Drama

An engineer from Tokyo arrives on a drought-ridden tropical island to drill a well to power a nearby sugar mill. He meets the inbred Futori family, hated by the locals for breaking religious customs.

Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Hideko Okiyama, Kanjûrô Arashi

Votes: 1,946

9. The Phantom (II) (2021)

82 min | Documentary

Carlos DeLuna was arrested in 1983 aged 21 for the murder of Wanda Lopez, and protested his innocence until his execution, declaring that it was another Carlos who committed the crime.

Director: Patrick Forbes | Stars: Janie Adrian, Richard Anderson, Julie Arsuaga, Kevan Baker

Votes: 982

10. TED-Ed (2012– )
Episode: What really happened during the Salem Witch Trials - Brian A. Pavlac (2020)

6 min | Documentary, Animation

Here is a brief summary of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692-1693. It is a partial chronicle focusing instead on the judicial rules and religious dogma that ensured the trials would be unfair.... See full summary »

Star: Susan Zimmerman

11. The Infographics Show (2011– )
Episode: 50 Things Nobody Tells You About Being in Prison (2021)

30 min | Documentary, Animation

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12. Elizabeth I's Secret Agents (2017)
Episode: Episode #1.2 (2017)

TV-PG | 54 min | Documentary, History

Robert Cecil is the son of Elizabeth I's original spymaster. He has been groomed since birth to inherit his father's network but he finally steps into his father's shoes.

Directors: Chris Durlacher, Julian Jones | Stars: Colin Tierney, Jerry Brotton, Dominic Green, Lisa Hilton

Votes: 43