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1. Planet of the Apes (2001)

PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

In 2029, an Air Force astronaut crash-lands on a mysterious planet where evolved, talking apes dominate a race of primitive humans.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Roth, Michael Clarke Duncan

Votes: 229,222 | Gross: $180.01M

2. War of the Worlds (2005)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

An alien invasion threatens the future of humanity. The catastrophic nightmare is depicted through the eyes of one American family fighting for survival.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto

Votes: 475,366 | Gross: $234.28M

3. King Kong (2005)

PG-13 | 187 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

A greedy film producer assembles a team of moviemakers and sets out for the infamous Skull Island, where they find more than just cannibalistic natives.

Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann

Votes: 447,022 | Gross: $218.08M

4. Beauty and the Beast (I) (2017)

PG | 129 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

A selfish Prince is cursed to become a monster for the rest of his life, unless he learns to fall in love with a beautiful young woman he keeps prisoner.

Director: Bill Condon | Stars: Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Josh Gad

Votes: 334,661 | Gross: $504.01M

5. Dawn of the Dead (2004)

R | 101 min | Action, Horror

A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.

Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer, Jake Weber

Votes: 272,553 | Gross: $59.02M

6. Cape Fear (1991)

R | 128 min | Crime, Thriller

A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis

Votes: 216,751 | Gross: $79.10M

7. The Fly (1986)

R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel

Votes: 201,995 | Gross: $40.46M

8. Godzilla (I) (1998)

PG-13 | 139 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that heads off to New York City. The American military must chase the monster across the city to stop it before it reproduces.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria

Votes: 203,624 | Gross: $136.31M

9. The Omen (2006)

R | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

An American official realizes that his young son may literally be the Devil incarnate.

Director: John Moore | Stars: Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, David Thewlis

Votes: 62,774 | Gross: $54.61M

10. Oldboy (2013)

R | 104 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Samuel L. Jackson, Sharlto Copley

Votes: 80,830 | Gross: $2.19M

11. Evil Dead (2013)

R | 91 min | Horror

Five friends head to a remote cabin, where the discovery of a Book of the Dead leads them to unwittingly summon up demons living in the nearby woods.

Director: Fede Alvarez | Stars: Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Jessica Lucas, Lou Taylor Pucci

Votes: 197,326 | Gross: $54.24M

12. Total Recall (I) (2012)

PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A factory worker, Douglas Quaid, begins to suspect that he is a spy after visiting Rekall - a company that provides its clients with implanted fake memories of a life they would like to have led - goes wrong and he finds himself on the run.

Director: Len Wiseman | Stars: Colin Farrell, Bokeem Woodbine, Bryan Cranston, Kate Beckinsale

Votes: 266,446 | Gross: $58.88M

13. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

R | 98 min | Horror

After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding loon and his family of equally psychopathic killers.

Director: Marcus Nispel | Stars: Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Andrew Bryniarski, Erica Leerhsen

Votes: 152,412 | Gross: $80.57M

14. Conan the Barbarian (2011)

R | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A vengeful barbarian warrior sets off to get his revenge on the evil warlord who attacked his village and murdered his father when he was a boy.

Director: Marcus Nispel | Stars: Jason Momoa, Ron Perlman, Rose McGowan, Stephen Lang

Votes: 102,719 | Gross: $21.30M

15. The Fog (2005)

PG-13 | 100 min | Horror, Mystery

A thick mist full of vengeful spirits haunts a prosperous island town off the coast of Oregon, as its inhabitants try to learn their town's dark secret in order to stop it.

Director: Rupert Wainwright | Stars: Tom Welling, Maggie Grace, Selma Blair, DeRay Davis

Votes: 39,180 | Gross: $29.51M

16. The Wicker Man (2006)

PG-13 | 102 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community.

Director: Neil LaBute | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Leelee Sobieski, Kate Beahan

Votes: 71,433 | Gross: $23.64M

17. TMNT (2007)

PG | 87 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

When the world is threatened by an ancient evil, the Ninja Turtles must reunite and overcome their faults in order to stand against it.

Director: Kevin Munroe | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Mako, Chris Evans, Sarah Michelle Gellar

Votes: 69,263 | Gross: $54.15M

18. Night of the Living Dead (1990)

R | 92 min | Horror

When the unburied dead return to life and seek human victims, seven refugees shelter in a house in the Pennsylvanian countryside.

Director: Tom Savini | Stars: Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman, Tom Towles, McKee Anderson

Votes: 45,512 | Gross: $5.84M

19. Poltergeist (2015)

PG-13 | 93 min | Horror, Thriller

A family whose suburban home is haunted by evil forces must come together to rescue their youngest daughter after the apparitions take her captive.

Director: Gil Kenan | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kennedi Clements, Saxon Sharbino

Votes: 61,088 | Gross: $47.43M

20. The Arena (I) (2001)

R | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Action

In an age of Gladiators, the power that was Rome held its empire together with the might of its armies, the sweat and tears of its conquests, and the cheers and bloodlust of its citizens - ... See full summary »

Director: Timur Bekmambetov | Stars: Karen McDougal, Lisa Dergan, Olga Sutulova, Yuliya Chicherina

Votes: 817

21. Black Christmas (2006)

R | 95 min | Horror

On Christmas Eve, an escaped maniac returns to his childhood home, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.

Director: Glen Morgan | Stars: Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Lacey Chabert, Katie Cassidy

Votes: 30,643 | Gross: $16.24M

22. Invaders from Mars (1986)

PG | 100 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A boy tries to stop aliens who have taken over his town and are attempting to brainwash its inhabitants.

Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Laraine Newman

Votes: 10,592 | Gross: $4.88M

23. Willard (2003)

PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A young man with an unusual connection to rats uses them at his own sociopathic will.

Director: Glen Morgan | Stars: Crispin Glover, R. Lee Ermey, Laura Harring, Jackie Burroughs

Votes: 20,406 | Gross: $6.89M

24. Chantal (2007 Video)

R | 96 min | Drama

Chantal is a hot, naive and dangerously delusional young woman, wandering the boulevards of L.A. looking for her first big break. There she meets Tracy who warns of the harsh realities lurking beyond the glamorous facade of Hollywood.

Director: Tony Marsiglia | Stars: Erin Brown, Julian Wells, Andrea Davis, Darian Caine

Votes: 467

25. Black Christmas (2019)

PG-13 | 92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A group of female students is stalked by a stranger during their Christmas break. That is until the young sorority pledges discover that the killer is part of an underground college conspiracy.

Director: Sophia Takal | Stars: Imogen Poots, Aleyse Shannon, Lily Donoghue, Brittany O'Grady

Votes: 19,105

26. Toolbox Murders (2004)

R | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A historic Hollywood hotel houses a supernatural evil. It's been subdued for decades, but when renovations start, a series of murders take place.

Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Angela Bettis, Brent Roam, Marco Rodríguez, Rance Howard

Votes: 8,786

27. Piranha (1995 TV Movie)

R | 89 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Remake of the classic film tale of nature biting back. When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

Director: Scott P. Levy | Stars: William Katt, Alexandra Paul, Monte Markham, Darleen Carr

Votes: 2,547

28. Don (I) (2006)

Not Rated | 171 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Vijay is recruited by a police officer to masquerade as his lookalike Don, the leader of an international gang of smugglers. Things go wrong when the officer is killed and Vijay is left to fend for himself.

Director: Farhan Akhtar | Stars: Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Arjun Rampal, Isha Koppikar

Votes: 41,036 | Gross: $0.80M

29. Inside (I) (2016)

Not Rated | 89 min | Horror, Thriller

A woman in her third trimester of pregnancy is stalked by a stranger who is obsessed with her unborn child.

Director: Miguel Ángel Vivas | Stars: Rachel Nichols, Laura Harring, Ben Temple, Gillian Apter

Votes: 5,090

30. The Goodbye Girl (2004 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy

The Goodbye Girl is a contemporary turn on Neil Simon's Academy Award-nominated classic film about a dumped-on divorcee and an aspiring actor who become unwilling roommates.

Director: Richard Benjamin | Stars: Jeff Daniels, Patricia Heaton, Hallie Eisenberg, Lynda Boyd

Votes: 1,312

31. A Bucket of Blood (1995 TV Movie)

R | 83 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

Walter Paisley, a busboy at a cappuccino bar called the Jabberjaw, is praised as a genius after he kills his landlady's cat and covers it in plaster. Pressured to produce more work, he goes after bigger subjects.

Director: Michael McDonald | Stars: Anthony Michael Hall, Justine Bateman, Shadoe Stevens, Sam Lloyd

Votes: 505

32. Our RoboCop Remake (2014)

108 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

During The Time When The 2014 Reboot Was Coming Out, Fans Decided To Remake The Original Themselves

Directors: Kelsy Abbott, Paul Bartunek, Casey Donahue, Fatal Farm, Tom Kauffman, Michael McCafferty, Nick Mundy, Dan Murrell, Ryan Ridley, J.D. Ryznar, Joshua Sasson, David Seger, Eric Appel, James Atkinson, Todd Bishop, Stephen Cedars, David Codeglia, Robert Copperfield, Kate Freund, Matthew Freund, Hank Friedmann, Clint Gage, Adam Ganzer, Ariel Gardner, Tais Ghelli, Shane Houghton, Paul Isakson, Mike Karnell, Alex Kavutskiy, Benji Kleiman, Jim Klimek, Jason Makiaris, Mike Manasewitsch, Timothy Marklevitz, Wendy McColm, Aaron Moles, John Olsen, Ben Pluimer, Matthew Pollock, Wade Randolph, Kyle Reiter, Dan Riesser, Jennifer Ruiz, Austin Salmi, Andy Signore, Duncan Skiles, Lauren Smitelli, Tyler Spiers, Spencer Strauss, Erni Walker, Jon Watts, Brett Weiner, Matt Wyatt, Brian Wysol, Scott Yacyshyn, Lindsay Zdziebko, Zachary Harrison Zdziebko, Jeremy Cohen, Ryan Ross | Stars: Chase Fein, Nichole Bagby, Willy Roberts, Hank Friedmann

Votes: 504

33. Angelfist (1993)

R | 80 min | Action, Thriller

An assassination in the Philippines is caught on film by kickboxer Christy, which leads to her death at the hands of radicals intent on disrupting peace talks. Her sister Kat, a Los Angeles... See full summary »

Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Catya Sassoon, Melissa Moore, Michael Shaner, Denise Buick

Votes: 458

34. The Warriors

TV-14 | Action, Adventure, Crime | Pre-production

A television adaptation of The Warriors (1979).

35. Logan's Run

Action, Adventure, Drama | Announced

A young man at odds with his society's mandatory death sentence for all those turning 21 plots a daring escape on the eve of his fateful birthday.

36. Lemon Popsicle: The Party Goes On (2001)

95 min | Comedy, Romance

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Director: Tzvi Shissel | Stars: Elad Stefansky, Ido Lev, Nicky Goldstein, Miri Bohadana

Votes: 214

37. Not of This Earth (1995 TV Movie)

R | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

An anemic alien comes to Earth from a dying planet, in the remake of the Corman 50s classic.

Director: Terence H. Winkless | Stars: Michael York, Parker Stevenson, Elizabeth Barondes, Richard Belzer

Votes: 491

38. The Corpse Grinders

Horror, Thriller | Post-production

Landau, the young owner of "Lotus Cat Food", is struggling to keep the company alive as business is worse than expected. Landau is broke and down on his luck and can no longer afford to pay... See full summary »

Director: Timo Rose | Stars: Shawn C. Phillips, Ted V. Mikels, Anthony Straeger, Yazmeen Baker

39. Kingdom of the Vampire (2007 Video)

82 min | Horror

In 1991, producer/director J.R. Bookwalter (THE DEAD NEXT DOOR) took his first leap into non-traditional filmmaking with the video-lensed KINGDOM OF THE VAMPIRE, a moody drama inspired by ... See full summary »

Director: Brett Kelly | Stars: Brett Kelly, Anastasia Kimmett, Gabrielle Mackenzie, Chip Hair

Votes: 150

40. Say Yes (2001)

104 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

After one year of marriage, things could not look better for Jeong-hyun and Yun-hie. In order to celebrate the publishing of Jeong-hyun's manuscript, the couple decide to take a winter ... See full summary »

Director: Sung-Hong Kim | Stars: Park Joong-hoon, Choo Sang-mi, Kim Ju-hyuk, Gi Ju-bong

Votes: 527

41. Rumble in the Streets (1997)

R | 74 min | Action, Drama

All her life Tori has faced poverty, vice and addiction. Still a child, she finds herself hunted by a renegade cop who has been systematically murdering street kids like her.

Director: Bret McCormick | Stars: David Courtemarche, Kimberly Rowe, Patrick De Fazio, Glenn Brown

Votes: 33

42. Bumboo (2012)

126 min | Comedy

Bumboo movie is based on one simple idea. Every person meets someone, who screws it up and makes life miserable (In the 'Bambaiyya' lingo it is called as 'Vaat Lagna'). In Bumboo the movie ... See full summary »

Director: Jagdish Rajpurohit | Stars: Kavin Dave, Sharat Saxena, Sanjay Mishra, Sarika Singh

Votes: 2,322

43. Poymat vedmu (2008)

66 min | Horror

Several Russian students try to catch Blair Witch in the woods of the Leningrad region.

Directors: Kim Druzhinin, Andrey Shalopa | Stars: Kim Druzhinin, Sergey Patrakov, Oksana Rysinskaya, Andrey Shalopa

Votes: 66

44. Great Performances (1971– )
Episode: The Real McTeague: A Synthesis of Forms (1993)

TV-G | 60 min | Music, Musical

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Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Ben Heppner, Catherine Malfitano, Timothy Nolen, Emily Golden

Votes: 29