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51. Scum (1991 TV Movie)
R | 78 min | Crime, Drama
This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British borstal for young offenders. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power ... See full summary »
Director: Alan Clarke | Stars: Ray Winstone, David Threlfall, Martin Phillips, Davidson Knight
Votes: 2,796
52. Warriors of the Wasteland (1983)
R | 91 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Two mercenaries help wandering caravans fight off an evil and aimless band of white-clad bikers after the nuclear holocaust.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Giancarlo Prete, Fred Williamson, George Eastman, Anna Kanakis
Votes: 3,106
53. 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: 13,336 | Gross: $0.02M
54. Crush (II) (2013)
PG-13 | 94 min | Horror, Thriller
A secret admirer's crush on a high school athlete takes a fatal turn.
Director: Malik Bader | Stars: Ashleigh Craig, Cody Hamilton, Lucas Till, Crystal Reed
Votes: 6,663
55. Where the Dead Go to Die (2012)
Unrated | 95 min | Animation, Fantasy, Horror
A troubled group of children living on the same block are haunted by a talking dog named Labby who brings them on surreal hell-rides between different dimensions and time periods.
Director: Jimmy ScreamerClauz | Stars: Ruby Larocca, Brandon Slagle, Joey Smack, Victor Bonacore
Votes: 1,430
56. Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)
R | 112 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults.
Director: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador | Stars: Lewis Fiander, Prunella Ransome, Antonio Iranzo, Miguel Narros
Votes: 8,066
57. No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker (2008)
R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
A sheriff and his son chase casino robbers, only to find the all of them are being chased by something else.
Director: Dave Payne | Stars: Michael Muhney, Stephen Martines, Lew Temple, Desmond Askew
Votes: 3,572
58. The House of the Dead (1978)
PG | 79 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
"The House of the Dead" is a 1978 horror anthology movie with "The Mortician" introducing each scary tale.
Director: Sharron Miller | Stars: John Ericson, Ivor Francis, Judith Novgrod, Burr DeBenning
Votes: 1,147
59. Patient Seven (2016)
116 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A renowned psychiatrist has selected six mental patients to interview as part of the research for his new book. As he begins his unorthodox methods the question becomes, who really belongs in Spring Valley Mental Hospital?
Directors: Danny Draven, Paul Davis, Ómar Örn Hauksson, Dean Hewison, Joel Morgan, Johannes Persson, Nicholas Peterson, Erlingur Thoroddsen, Rasmus Wassberg | Stars: Michael Ironside, Jack Plotnick, Drew Fonteiro, Rane Jameson
Votes: 3,390
60. Peopletoys (1974)
R | 88 min | Horror
After five deranged children are involved in a bus wreck they start killing people at the lodge who insulted them or were rude to them.
Directors: Sean MacGregor, David Sheldon | Stars: Sorrell Booke, Gene Evans, Taylor Lacher, Joan McCall
Votes: 1,909
61. Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)
GP | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A cleaver-wielding bridal designer murders various young brides-to-be in an attempt to unlock a repressed childhood trauma.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Stephen Forsyth, Dagmar Lassander, Laura Betti, Jesús Puente
Votes: 4,349
62. Preservation (2014)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
An anesthesiologist must awaken her animal instincts when she, her husband and her brother-in-law become the quarry of unseen hunters who want to turn them all into trophies.
Director: Christopher Denham | Stars: Wrenn Schmidt, Pablo Schreiber, Aaron Staton, Cody Saintgnue
Votes: 6,064
63. While the Wolf's Away (2017)
TV-MA | 123 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A young teen and his misfit group of friends try to escape from a strict boarding school that holds dangerous secrets.
Director: Joseph Hemsani | Stars: Luis de La Rosa, Mauricio García Lozano, Miranda Kay, Michel Arluk
Votes: 2,836
64. The Influence (2019)
TV-MA | 99 min | Horror
After moving back to her family home to care for her dying mother, a nurse haunted by her childhood memories must struggle with an evil force in the house.
Director: Denis Rovira van Boekholt | Stars: Manuela Vellés, Maggie Civantos, Alain Hernández, Claudia Placer
Votes: 4,207
65. The 13th Floor (1988)
R | 88 min | Horror
As a child, a girl witnesses her father electrocute a young boy. When she grows into an adult, the ghost of the murdered boy appears to her, and together they set out to expose the crimes of her father.
Director: Chris Roache | Stars: Kylie Clare, Tony Blackett, Allen Leong, Matthew Nicholls
Votes: 596
66. Revenge: A Love Story (2010)
90 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Kit is a young man hunted by the police after a series of murders. A mystery unravels and out comes a story about revenge.
Director: Ching-Po Wong | Stars: Juno Mak, Sora Aoi, Tony Liu, Siu-Ho Chin
Votes: 1,762
67. Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001 Video)
R | 82 min | Horror, Thriller
When a girl named Jamie repeatedly tries to contact her grandmother to no avail, she investigates by going to her apartment in Omaha Nebraska....only to find that it's been condemned and ... See full summary »
Director: Guy Magar | Stars: Claudette Mink, Kyle Cassie, Michael Ironside, Troy Yorke
Votes: 3,240
68. The Shortcut (2009)
PG-13 | 100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Two brothers come upon a rarely used shortcut in their new town.
Director: Nicholaus Goossen | Stars: Katrina Bowden, Jeremy Bastian, Cavan Cunningham, William B. Davis
Votes: 3,920
69. Who Saw Her Die? (1972)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Between a four-year gap in the murder of a young girl, the daughter of a well-known sculptor is discovered dead, and her parents conduct an investigation, only to discover they are much out of their depth.
Director: Aldo Lado | Stars: George Lazenby, Anita Strindberg, Adolfo Celi, Dominique Boschero
Votes: 2,924
70. Happy Town (2010)
353 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A deputy sheriff is confronted with the unsolved mystery of a half-dozen child kidnappings over the past decade in a small town in Minnesota.
Stars: Geoff Stults, Lauren German, Amy Acker, Robert Wisdom
Votes: 3,433
71. Children of the Damned (1964)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Six impossibly intelligent children from all over the world with dangerous psychic powers hide in a church in England after the military tries to experiment on them. Besieged, they warn the military to back off before carnage ensues.
Director: Anton Leader | Stars: Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris, Alfred Burke
Votes: 5,035 | Gross: $1.00M
72. Citadel (I) (2012)
R | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
An agoraphobic father teams up with a renegade priest to save his daughter from the clutches of a gang of twisted feral children who committed an act of violence against his family years earlier.
Director: Ciarán Foy | Stars: Aneurin Barnard, James Cosmo, Wunmi Mosaku, Jake Wilson
Votes: 7,341
73. Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)
Not Rated | 82 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Using his status as a police informant to procure his victims, baby-faced, shaven-headed Fritz Haarmann dismembers their bodies after death and sells the flesh to restaurants, dumping the remainder out of sight.
Director: Ulli Lommel | Stars: Kurt Raab, Jeff Roden, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven
Votes: 1,589
74. Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924)
Not Rated | 129 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Princess Kriemhild vows to avenge her husband's murder but must overcome her brothers who swore allegiance to Hagen. She marries Etzel, King of the Huns, and persuades his army to attack Hagen, but she loses more than she bargained for.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Margarete Schön, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos, Hans Carl Mueller
Votes: 5,019
75. The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story (2004 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 84 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
As the police search for a missing pregnant woman, new evidence emerges that throws suspicion on her seemingly devoted husband.
Director: Roger Young | Stars: Dean Cain, Sarah Joy Brown, G.W. Bailey, Cindy Hogan
Votes: 1,281
76. Brothers (XI) (2015)
11 min | Short, Thriller
The story of two brothers, Tom and Jake, and their problematic relationship.
Director: Robert Eggers | Stars: Ethan Sailor, Griffin Fox Smith, Beth Brown
Votes: 945
77. Scream Bloody Murder (1973)
R | 90 min | Horror
A deranged kid murders his father and has his arm crushed by the farm tractor. After being discharged from the mental hospital with an amputee, he discovers that his mother has remarried, prompting him to go on a homicidal rampage.
Director: Marc B. Ray | Stars: Fred Holbert, Leigh Mitchell, Robert Knox, Ron Bastone
Votes: 1,202
78. Laurin (1989)
84 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Children have been disappearing under mysterious circumstances in a 19th century German village. A young girl soon becomes haunted by disturbing visions of the missing kids.
Director: Robert Sigl | Stars: Dóra Szinetár, Brigitte Karner, Károly Eperjes, Hédi Temessy
Votes: 973
79. Incident in a Small Town (1994 TV Movie)
PG | 85 min | Drama, War
Walter Matthau and Harry Morgan star in this made-for-television drama, in which a judge in a small town discovers that the skeletons in his family closet are aired for all to see after he's named as a prime suspect in a murder.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Walter Matthau, Harry Morgan, Stephanie Zimbalist, Nick Stahl
Votes: 422
80. Hansel and Gretel (2007)
TV-14 | 117 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After meeting a mysterious girl on an dark stretch of road, a young salesman is invited to a beautiful house with bizarre secrets and no way to escape.
Director: Pil-sung Yim | Stars: Cheon Jeong-myeong, Eun Won-jae, Shim Eun-kyung, Jin Ji-hee
Votes: 4,953
81. Downriver (2015)
TV-MA | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Although a young man is accused of drowning a little boy and is placed in juvenile detention, he has little memory of the event. Now, out on parole, he searches for answers that may give a grieving mother closure.
Director: Grant Scicluna | Stars: Reef Ireland, Kerry Fox, Robert Taylor, Helen Morse
Votes: 681
82. What We Become (2015)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.
Director: Bo Mikkelsen | Stars: Benjamin Engell, Troels Lyby, Mille Dinesen, Ella Solgaard
Votes: 4,292
83. Princess (I) (2006)
Unrated | 82 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Due to his sister's death, the 32 year old August returns and consequently abandons his profession as a missionary priest. His beloved sister Christina, who went from greatness to decay as ... See full summary »
Director: Anders Morgenthaler | Stars: Thure Lindhardt, Stine Fischer Christensen, Jens Arentzen, Rasmus Bjerg
Votes: 2,846
84. The Black Vampire (1953)
90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
This "feminist" reworking of Fritz Lang's classic M focuses on the mothers of children stalked by a deranged pedophile.
Director: Román Viñoly Barreto | Stars: Olga Zubarry, Roberto Escalada, Nelly Panizza, Mariano Vidal Molina
Votes: 583
85. Lost Boy: The Killing of James Bulger (2021)
Documentary, Crime
The story of the police investigation into the abduction and murder of 2-year-old James Bulger.
Stars: Jim Fitzsimmons, Dominic Lloyd, Denise Fergus, Phil Roberts
Votes: 43
86. Little Criminals (1996 TV Movie)
91 min | Crime, Drama
Des is an eleven year old kid who has had a really bad deal in life. Crime and mischief are the main staples of his life and he and his friends cruise around the city and do things like ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Surjik | Stars: Brendan Fletcher, Myles Ferguson, Adam Harrison, Jordan Clarke
Votes: 799
87. Blind Turn (2012)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Samantha Holt is forced to confront her dark secrets when she is kidnapped and held prisoner by a man from her past out for revenge.
Director: Robert Orr | Stars: Rachel Boston, Jay Dee Walters, John Gabriel Rodriquez, Christian Stokes
Votes: 144
88. Let's Be Evil (2016)
Not Rated | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A vision of augmented reality.
Director: Martin Owen | Stars: Sophie Willis, Jules Brown, Elizabeth Morris, Chase Bowman
Votes: 5,586
89. Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)
Not Rated | 76 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A series of grisly events that took place in the state of Wisconsin between 1890 and 1900 is dramatized as reported in the Black River Falls newspaper.
Director: James Marsh | Stars: Ian Holm, Jeffrey Golden, Jo Vukelich, Marcus Monroe
Votes: 1,614
90. Myra Hindley: The Untold Story (2013– )
60 min | Documentary, Crime
An in depth description of the lives of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, otherwise known as the Moors Murderers. It focuses on their relationship and the series of events that led to them murdering 5 children.
Stars: Tom Roberts, Gemma Lawman, Haydn Holden, Conor Hanifin
Votes: 31
91. Cursed Bastards (2011)
120 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A sinister healer who will curse several people dragging them to live creepy experiences along their own stories.
Directors: Fabián Forte, Demián Rugna | Stars: Victoria Almeida, Paula Bouquet Roldán, Víctor Cura, Pedro Di Salvia
Votes: 79
92. Cub (2014)
Not Rated | 84 min | Adventure, Horror
Over-imaginative 12 year-old Sam heads off to the woods to summer scout camp with his pack convinced he will encounter a monster...and he does.
Director: Jonas Govaerts | Stars: Maurice Luijten, Evelien Bosmans, Titus De Voogdt, Stef Aerts
Votes: 6,192
93. The Rose Garden (1989)
PG-13 | 112 min | Drama
In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer.
Director: Fons Rademakers | Stars: Liv Ullmann, Maximilian Schell, Peter Fonda, Jan Niklas
Votes: 465
94. M - A City Hunts a Murderer (2019)
292 min | Crime, Thriller
Winter in Vienna. Children disappear. For now without a trace, then their bodies are found. A gift for the tabloid press. For the police a series of defeats. Politically a problem. And at ... See full summary »
Stars: Dominik Maringer, Sarah Viktoria Frick, Johanna Orsini-Rosenberg, Christian Dolezal
Votes: 553
95. The Child Molester (1964)
20 min | Short, Crime
Two young girls playing hopscotch at a playground accept n offer of some candy by a stranger. When he also offers them a ride home in his car, they accept, but they soon discover that he ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert J. Leder
Votes: 143
96. Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer (2021)
101 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In 1905, French seminarian Bruno Reidel is found guilty of murdering a child. At the request of the doctors observing him, he writes his memoirs to explain his action.
Director: Vincent Le Port | Stars: Dimitri Doré, Jean-Luc Vincent, Roman Villedieu, Alex Fanguin
Votes: 863
97. Krueger: Tales from Elm Street (2017)
40 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Before the Nightmare he was a real life killer
Director: Chris R. Notarile | Stars: Roberto Lombardi, Jessica Buda, Shannon McDermott, Shawn Parr
Votes: 77
98. Istanbul (1985)
90 min | Thriller, Drama
While traveling through Belgium, an American named Martin befriends a waiter named Willy when he saves Willy from a fight with a customer. They get drunk together and Martin invites Willy ... See full synopsis »
Director: Marc Didden | Stars: Brad Dourif, Dominique Deruddere, Ingrid De Vos, François Beukelaers
Votes: 262
99. Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express (2006 Video Game)
T | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
As Miss Marceau, the assistant manager of the Orient Express, solve puzzles, interview passengers, search compartments and gather forensic evidence to help temporarily indisposed Hercule Poirot solve a paradoxical murder on the train.
Directors: Mike Adams, Scott Nixon | Stars: David Suchet, Vanessa Marshall, Carolyn Seymour, Leigh-Allyn Baker
Votes: 378
100. Tales of the Third Dimension (1984)
85 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
"Tales of the Third Dimension" was a 1984 hosted horror anthology 3-D movie; with the skeleton "Igor" as host. The movie has three scary tales.
Directors: Todd Durham, Worth Keeter, Thom McIntyre, Earl Owensby | Stars: Fran Taylor, Kevin Campbell, Robert Bloodworth, Kate Hunter
Votes: 198