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1. The Platform (2019)
TV-MA | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A vertical prison with one cell per level. Two people per cell. Only one food platform and two minutes per day to feed. An endless nightmare trapped in The Hole.
Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia | Stars: Ivan Massagué, Zorion Eguileor, Antonia San Juan, Emilio Buale
Votes: 273,050
2. Carnival Row (2019–2023)
TV-MA | 56 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A human detective and a fairy rekindle a dangerous affair in a Victorian fantasy world, where the city's uneasy peace collapses when a string of murders reveals an unimaginable monster.
Stars: Orlando Bloom, Cara Delevingne, Simon McBurney, Tamzin Merchant
Votes: 82,432
3. Voyagers (2021)
PG-13 | 108 min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A crew of astronauts on a multi-generational mission descend into paranoia and madness, not knowing what is real or not.
Director: Neil Burger | Stars: Colin Farrell, Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp, Fionn Whitehead
Votes: 26,818
4. The Devil's Backbone (2001)
R | 106 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve
Votes: 71,040 | Gross: $0.75M
5. Freaks of Nature (2015)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
In the town of Dillford, humans, vampires and zombies were all living in peace - until the alien apocalypse arrived. Now three teenagers - one human, one vampire, and one zombie - have to team up to figure out how to get rid of the visitors.
Director: Robbie Pickering | Stars: Nicholas Braun, Mackenzie Davis, Josh Fadem, Denis Leary
Votes: 13,380
6. A Field in England (2013)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, History, Horror
Amid the Civil War in 17th-century England, a group of deserters flee from battle through an overgrown field. Captured by an alchemist, the men are forced to help him search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field.
Director: Ben Wheatley | Stars: Julian Barratt, Peter Ferdinando, Richard Glover, Ryan Pope
Votes: 14,008 | Gross: $0.03M
7. Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Horror, Western
Reclusive vampires lounge in a lonely American town. They wear sun cream to protect themselves. A descendant of Van Helsing arrives with hilarious consequences.
Director: Anthony Hickox | Stars: David Carradine, Morgan Brittany, Bruce Campbell, Jim Metzler
Votes: 3,490
8. Transit (I) (2018)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A man attempting to escape occupied France falls in love with the wife of a dead author whose identity he has assumed.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman
Votes: 11,876 | Gross: $0.82M
9. The Firemen's Ball (1967)
Not Rated | 73 min | Comedy, Drama
A volunteer fire department throws a party for their former boss with the whole town invited, but nothing goes as planned.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebánek, Josef Valnoha, Frantisek Debelka
Votes: 12,206
10. 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: 6,047
11. Zero for Conduct (1933)
Not Rated | 47 min | Drama
In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the direction on a celebration day.
Director: Jean Vigo | Stars: Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Louis Lefebvre, Du Verron
Votes: 9,370
12. Anna and the Wolves (1973)
100 min | Drama
A British governess comes to an isolated house to take care of the children of a convoluted family.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Fernán Gómez, José María Prada, José Vivó
Votes: 1,987
13. Alfred J. Kwak (1989–1991)
25 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
After a horrific car accident takes the lives of his parents and siblings, a young duckling is raised by his considerate uncle to be good and responsible; meanwhile, his schoolmate Dolf slowly becomes seduced by fascism.
Stars: Ryan van den Akker, Jarmo Koski, Frits Lambrechts, Herman van Veen
Votes: 2,584
14. Repentance (1984)
PG | 153 min | Drama
Varlam, the despotic mayor of a small town, dies. After his funeral, his body is repeatedly unearthed and buried again. Through flashbacks and dreamlike scenes, we witness his rise, power and ambiguities.
Director: Tengiz Abuladze | Stars: Avtandil Makharadze, Zeinab Botsvadze, Ia Ninidze, Ketevan Abuladze
Votes: 4,914 | Gross: $0.22M
15. The Lady Terrorist (2019)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An elderly woman decides to act on her own with a rifle as she gets fed up with injustice.
Director: Radek Bajgar | Stars: Iva Janzurová, Martin Hofmann, Tatiana Dyková, Pavel Liska
Votes: 486
16. Hetalia: Axis Powers (2009–2016)
TV-MA | 5 min | Animation, Comedy
An anime in which personified countries show history in a humorous fashion.
Stars: Todd Haberkorn, Patrick Seitz, Eric Vale, Jamie Marchi
Votes: 1,421
17. The Crucible (1967 TV Movie)
135 min | Drama, History
In the Puritan New England town of Salem, Massachusetts, a group of girls go dancing in the forest with a black slave named Tituba. While dancing, they are caught by the local minister, ... See full synopsis »
Director: Alex Segal | Stars: George C. Scott, Colleen Dewhurst, Fritz Weaver, Henry Jones
Votes: 142
18. Strigoi (2009)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
When the villagers killed Constantin Tirescu, they thought it was justice. Vlad Cozma thinks it was murder. Now Constantin thinks pickles might go nice with blood.
Director: Faye Jackson | Stars: Catalin Paraschiv, Rudy Rosenfeld, Constantin Barbulescu, Roxana Guttman
Votes: 1,265
19. Vlastníci (2019)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
Mrs. Zahrádková has a plan to convince the other co-owners of the flats to finally save the house in which they live together and which is in emergency condition.
Director: Jirí Havelka | Stars: Tereza Ramba, Vojtech Kotek, Dagmar Havlová, Jirí Lábus
Votes: 1,094
20. A Report on the Party and Guests (1966)
71 min | Comedy, Drama
A small group of bourgeois guests head for a birthday party of a prominent figure. As they go through the woods and have a picnic, they are suddenly surrounded by a bunch of suspicious strangers.
Director: Jan Nemec | Stars: Helena Pejsková, Jana Pracharová, Zdena Skvorecka, Pavel Bosek
Votes: 1,824
21. The Death Lullaby (1985)
27 min | Animation, Short, Drama
A semi-surreal disturbing visual narration that focuses among other things on a child that's being bullied by other kids.
Director: Hiroshi Harada | Stars: Kiyohiko Inami, Katsuhito Takahashi
Votes: 216
22. Hotel Jugoslavija (2017)
78 min | Documentary, History
A journey through the times and spaces of the Hotel Jugoslavija
Director: Nicolas Wagnières | Stars: Slobodan Milosevic, Boris Tadic, Josip Broz Tito, Nicolas Wagnières
Votes: 171
23. Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler (1962)
89 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The rise and fall of Nazi Germany in part through the use of classical allegory.
Director: Louis Clyde Stoumen | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 208
24. The Box (VIII) (2017)
12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
You have probably heard of the phrase "To think outside of the box"? Well, this is a story about such a box. The box is full of miserable creatures. One of those creatures doesn't belong there. He's thinking outside of the box.
Director: Dusan Kastelic | Stars: Mateja Staric, Dusan Kastelic
Votes: 250
25. Mein Leben für Irland (1941)
90 min | Drama
"My Life for Ireland" is a Nazi-made anti-British propaganda film about a group of Dublin schoolboys who unwittingly become pawns of the British and seek redemption by avenging their fallen IRA fathers in the Irish War of Independence.
Director: Max W. Kimmich | Stars: Anna Dammann, René Deltgen, Paul Wegener, Werner Hinz
Votes: 79
26. The Hangman (1964)
12 min | Animation, Short, Horror
A town is doomed to endless torment by the Hangman, who continues to kill off the town one by one. As more die, the town becomes more and more in disarray as the gallow grew each day.
Directors: Les Goldman, Paul Julian | Star: Herschel Bernardi
Votes: 220
27. Occupy Me (2015)
16 min | Short, Drama
Two men, David (a Jewish-American) and Sam (an Palestinian-American) meet for an afternoon sexual encounter and find that there is more between them than just a visceral connection. But ... See full summary »
Director: Adam Fitzgerald | Stars: Jaspal Binning, Max Rhyser
Votes: 81
28. Leaving (2011)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
An absurdist look at the life of an ex-politician.
Director: Václav Havel | Stars: Josef Abrhám, Dagmar Havlová, Vlasta Chramostová, Eva Holubová
Votes: 236
29. The Magic Quill (2018)
99 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A fairy tale, featuring the landlady Margaret, the devil Boniface, the bribable councilors Fake and Chatterbox and the lazy tailor Greasy. In Hell, the devils have a quill that writes human... See full summary »
Director: Marek Najbrt | Stars: Ondrej Vetchý, Judit Bárdos, Jana Plodková, Tomás Jerábek
Votes: 278
32. Helena Vondrácková: Prejdi Jordán (1968 Music Video)
3 min | Short, Music
Director: Jaromír Vasta | Stars: Helena Vondrácková, Waldemar Matuska
Votes: 17
33. Rammstein: Links 2 3 4 (2001 Music Video)
4 min | Animation, Music
The music video for the song uses CGI to portray the struggle of an ant-colony against attacking beetles.
Director: Zoran Bihac | Star: Till Lindemann
Votes: 137
34. Tomás Klus: Chátrám (2019 Music Video)
4 min | Music
Director: Marek Stifter | Stars: Tomás Klus, Hana Batková, Roman Bukácek, Vendula Dohnalová
Votes: 17
35. Cermaque: Neboj (2017 Music Video)
6 min | Music
Director: Jakub Cermak | Stars: Jakub Cermak, Tomás Klus, Tamara Klusová, Helena Machová
Votes: 14
36.
Five Came Back (2017)
Episode:
The Mission Begins
(2017)
TV-14 | 59 min | Documentary, Biography, History
When World War II breaks out, five of Hollywood's top directors leave their homes and careers to join the army and film the war effort.
Director: Laurent Bouzereau | Stars: Frank Capra, Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo del Toro, John Ford
Votes: 361
37.
The Twilight Zone (2019–2020)
Episode:
Point of Origin
(2019)
TV-MA | 43 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A housewife discovers where she's really from when she's taken away from her family.
Director: Mathias Herndl | Stars: Ginnifer Goodwin, James Frain, Toby Levins, Zabryna Guevara
Votes: 2,254