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1. Marnie (1964)
PG | 130 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Martin Gabel, Louise Latham
Votes: 53,817 | Gross: $7.00M
2. Jolene (2008)
R | 121 min | Drama
A teenage orphan spends ten years traveling cross-country experiencing life, love and heartbreak.
Director: Dan Ireland | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Frances Fisher, Rupert Friend, Dermot Mulroney
Votes: 5,148
3. The Paradine Case (1947)
Approved | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn
Votes: 12,380
4. 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
5. Sleeping Dogs Lie (I) (2006)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A recently engaged woman's life is thrown into turmoil after confessing to her fiancé that she once experimented with bestiality.
Director: Bobcat Goldthwait | Stars: Melinda Page Hamilton, Bryce Johnson, Brian Posehn, Geoff Pierson
Votes: 3,483 | Gross: $0.01M
6. Heart of Midnight (1988)
R | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Carol inherits a night club from her weird uncle. She moves into the place, only to find out just how weird her uncle really was. She begins to remember more about her very special ... See full summary »
Director: Matthew Chapman | Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brenda Vaccaro, Jack Hallett, Nicholas Love
Votes: 1,753 | Gross: $0.11M
7. Wicked Woman (1953)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Film-Noir
Drifting floozy Billie Nash gets a bar job where she seduces the owner's husband by convincing him to defraud his drunkard wife in order to elope together to Mexico, but a sleazy neighbor with designs on Billie jeopardizes her plans.
Director: Russell Rouse | Stars: Beverly Michaels, Richard Egan, Percy Helton, Evelyn Scott
Votes: 1,001
8. Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
R | 123 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A wealthy plantation owner is captivated by a mysterious woman with a shady past.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Nelly Borgeaud, Martine Ferrière
Votes: 7,208 | Gross: $0.03M
9. Heat Lightning (1934)
Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama
A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 1,025
10. Girls Gone Wild (2013– )
Reality-TV
Stars: Mia Martinez, Lexi, Nicole Ray, Saamanta Williams
Votes: 23
11. Carnival Story (1954)
Approved | 95 min | Drama
An American carnival in Germany sets the scene for sin, sex and melodrama.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, Lyle Bettger, George Nader
Votes: 662
12. Temptation (1946)
Approved | 98 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Ruby, a beautiful divorcee with a shady past, marries a rich Egyptologist, and while he continues excavating a Pharoah's tomb, she becomes bored until she falls for a debt-ridden, blackmailing Egyptian prince.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Merle Oberon, George Brent, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas
Votes: 379
13. Three Violent People (1956)
Approved | 100 min | Western
When Confederate officer Colt Saunders returns to his Texas ranch after the war he finds his lands wanted by carpetbaggers and by corrupt provisional government commissioners Harrison and Cable.
Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Gilbert Roland, Tom Tryon
Votes: 1,579
14. Shadows of Desire (1994 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama, Thriller
A woman is torn between her love for a gentle man, and her secret passion for his dangerous brother.
Director: Sam Pillsbury | Stars: Nicollette Sheridan, Joe Lando, Adrian Pasdar, Richard Roundtree
Votes: 245
15. A Fool There Was (1915)
Not Rated | 67 min | Drama
A married diplomat falls hopelessly under the spell of a predatory woman.
Director: Frank Powell | Stars: Theda Bara, Edward José, Mabel Frenyear, May Allison
Votes: 1,039
16. Woman on the Beach (2006)
R | 127 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A movie director entices his young friend to come to the beach on the pretext of writing a script. He then starts an affair with the friend's girlfriend.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Kim Seung-woo, Go Hyun-jung, Song Seon-mi, Kim Tae-woo
Votes: 1,413 | Gross: $0.01M
17. The Silver Horde (1930)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Romance
A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Louis Wolheim, Jean Arthur, Raymond Hatton
Votes: 628
18. Chickens Come Home (1931)
Passed | 30 min | Short, Comedy, Family
Mr. Hardy is running for mayor but an old flame of ill repute shows up to blackmail him with an old naughty photograph.
Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Baldwin Cooke
Votes: 1,676
19. Party Girl (1930)
Passed | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A cautionary tale. Ellen's past as a "party girl" is carefully hidden but may be exposed when another party girl tricks her fiance into marriage.
Director: Victor Halperin | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jeanette Loff, Judith Barrie, Marie Prevost
Votes: 322
20. For You I Die (1947)
Passed | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A young convict,Johnny Coulter, serving as a trustee and with only a year remaining on his sentence, is forced to participate in a prison break by one of the hardened criminals. They ... See full summary »
Director: John Reinhardt | Stars: Cathy Downs, Paul Langton, Mischa Auer, Roman Bohnen
Votes: 285
21. A Passport to Hell (1932)
75 min | Drama
A notorious, beautiful Englishwoman is kicked out of British West Africa to German West Africa just before the start of World War I. She marries a German colonial official to avoid ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Elissa Landi, Paul Lukas, Warner Oland, Alexander Kirkland
Votes: 131
22. Uptown New York (1932)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
Pat and Max are in love and share an intimate relationship. However, after Max receives his surgeon's diploma, his parents have arranged a marriage for him with a woman from a rich, good background.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Jack Oakie, Shirley Grey, Leon Ames, George Cooper
Votes: 164
23. The Murder Men (1962)
73 min | Crime, Drama
A young woman with a past is manipulated by the police to discover a missing drugs shipment, also wanted by the mafia. Between her musician husband and her long time detective friend, she is hopeless - but still performs some jazz numbers.
Director: John Peyser | Stars: Peter Mark Richman, Dorothy Dandridge, James Coburn, Joe Mantell
Votes: 27
24. Bludicka (1977)
90 min | Crime
Director: Miroslav Hornák | Stars: Bozidara Turzonovová, Ctibor Filcík, Karol Machata, Viliam Záborsky
Votes: 8
25. Paris' Girls (1929)
140 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Henry Roussel | Stars: Suzy Vernon, Danièle Parola, Fernand Fabre, Cyril De Ramsay
26.
Midsomer Murders (1997– )
Episode:
Beyond the Grave
(2000)
TV-14 | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Barnaby and Troy, with an actor tagging along for research, investigate a slashed painting at a museum, which later turns out to be the site of a murder.
Director: Moira Armstrong | Stars: John Nettles, Daniel Casey, Jane Wymark, Laura Howard
Votes: 1,024
27.
Remington Steele (1982–1987)
Episode:
Steele in the News
(1983)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Steele and Laura investigate the murder of two news team personnel at a local television station.
Director: Burt Brinckerhoff | Stars: Stephanie Zimbalist, Pierce Brosnan, James Read, Janet DeMay
Votes: 150
28.
Shantaram (2022)
Episode:
The Sin in the Crime
(2022)
TV-MA | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Caught between two worlds, Lin is faced with a choice between his community and the underworld, and whether to keep his secrets or reveal them.
Director: Iain B. MacDonald | Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Fayssal Bazzi, Sujaya Dasgupta, Antonia Desplat
Votes: 435
29.
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem (2021– )
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2021)
TV-MA | Drama
In 1917 Jerusalem, for Gabriel, it is love at first sight. His father objects. Instead, he marries his cleaning woman. 20 years later, their teenage daughter rebels against her strict mother.
Directors: Oded Davidoff, Shai Eines, Dafna Prenner | Stars: Swell Ariel Or, Michael Aloni, Hila Saada, Irit Kaplan
Votes: 44
30.
My Cousin Rachel (1983– )
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(1983)
Mystery, Romance, Drama
After Cousin Rachel's unexpected visit to the Ashley estate, Philip's initial hostility starts to fade, and he becomes increasingly fond of her. He grants her a generous allowance from the estate and urges her to stay permanently.
Director: Brian Farnham | Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Christopher Guard, John Bryans, Jamie Cresswell
31.
Hunderby (2012–2015)
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(2012)
22 min | Comedy
With no sign of an heir, Edmund upsets everyone by announcing that he and his new bride will leave Hunderby for Fiji. Helene and Doctor Foggerty succumb to their feelings for each other.
Director: Tony Dow | Stars: Julia Davis, Alexandra Roach, Alex Macqueen, Rufus Jones
Votes: 27
32.
Wolf Like Me (2022– )
Episode:
Episode #2.4
(2023)
TV-MA | 26 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Mary's former professor Anton shows up threatening the precarious balance. He reveals to Mary something which complicates things even further. As a second full moon rises stuck in the basement with Anto, Mary just let her wolf run free.
Director: Abe Forsythe | Stars: Isla Fisher, Josh Gad, Ariel Donoghue, Emma Lung
Votes: 134
33.
The Last Tycoon (2016–2017)
Episode:
An Enemy Among Us
(2017)
TV-MA | 53 min | Drama
Stahr concocts a campaign to secure the studio's first ever Oscar nominations. Brady scours for a solution to balance the books and get the Board of Directors off his back. Celia's mettle ... See full summary »
Director: Scott Hornbacher | Stars: Matt Bomer, Kelsey Grammer, Lily Collins, Dominique McElligott
Votes: 183