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1. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Epic drama set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth.
Stars: Morfydd Clark, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Charlie Vickers, Markella Kavenagh
Votes: 353,926
2. The Gentlemen (2024)
TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
When aristocratic Eddie inherits the family estate, he discovers that it's home to a huge weed empire, and its proprietors aren't going anywhere.
Stars: Theo James, Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings, Joely Richardson
Votes: 106,638
3. Dune: Prophecy (2024– )
Action, Adventure, Drama | Post-production
TV series set in the 'Dune' universe which centers on the lives of the Bene Gesserit.
Stars: Travis Fimmel, Camilla Beeput, Sarah Lam, Emily Watson
4. Fargo (2014–2024)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Various chronicles of deception, intrigue, and murder in and around frozen Minnesota. All of these tales mysteriously lead back one way or another to Fargo, North Dakota.
Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks
Votes: 423,239
5. Reacher (2022– )
TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Itinerant former military policeman Jack Reacher solves crimes and metes out his own brand of street justice. Based on the novels by Lee Child.
Stars: Alan Ritchson, Maria Sten, Malcolm Goodwin, Willa Fitzgerald
Votes: 213,816
6. Knuckles (2024)
TV-PG | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Knuckles the Echidna teaches deputy Wade Whipple the techniques of the Echidna warrior.
Stars: Idris Elba, Adam Pally, Stockard Channing, Edi Patterson
Votes: 3,650
7. The Mandalorian (2019– )
TV-14 | 40 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The travels of a lone bounty hunter in the outer reaches of the galaxy, far from the authority of the New Republic.
Stars: Pedro Pascal, Chris Bartlett, Katee Sackhoff, Carl Weathers
Votes: 589,373
8. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003)
TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young woman, destined to slay vampires, demons and other infernal creatures, deals with her life fighting evil, with the help of her friends.
Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Head
Votes: 160,125
9. Cobra Kai (2018–2025)
TV-14 | 30 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Decades after their 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament bout, a middle-aged Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence find themselves martial-arts rivals again.
Stars: Ralph Macchio, William Zabka, Courtney Henggeler, Xolo Maridueña
Votes: 204,267
10. Westworld (2016–2022)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
At the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, waits a world in which every human appetite can be indulged without consequence.
Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright, Ed Harris, Thandiwe Newton
Votes: 534,106
11. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2024– )
TV-MA | 45 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two strangers land jobs with a spy agency that offers them a life of espionage, wealth, and travel. The catch: new identities in an arranged marriage.
Stars: Donald Glover, Maya Erskine, Paul Dano, Parker Posey
Votes: 39,334
12. Chucky (I) (2021– )
TV-MA | 42 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
After a vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, an idyllic American town is thrown into chaos as a series of horrifying murders begin to expose the town's hypocrisies and secrets.
Stars: Zackary Arthur, Bjorgvin Arnarson, Alyvia Alyn Lind, Brad Dourif
Votes: 27,284
13. Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007)
TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A secret military team, SG-1, is formed to explore other planets through the recently discovered Stargates.
Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge
Votes: 101,666
14. Monsters at Work (2021– )
TV-G | 22 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Mechanic Tylor Tuskmon has big dreams of working his way up the ranks to the Laugh Floor at Monsters Inc.
Stars: Billy Crystal, Ben Feldman, Mindy Kaling, Henry Winkler
Votes: 8,898
15. Cross (2024– )
Action, Crime, Mystery | Post-production
TV series based on James Paterson's Alex Cross novels.
Stars: Jennifer Wigmore, Stacie Greenwell, Aldis Hodge, Mercedes de la Zerda
16. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008–2020)
TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Jedi Knights lead the Grand Army of the Republic against the droid army of the Separatists.
Stars: Tom Kane, Dee Bradley Baker, Matt Lanter, James Arnold Taylor
Votes: 121,121
17. M*A*S*H (1972–1983)
TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy, Drama, War
The staff of an Army hospital in the Korean War find that laughter is the best way to deal with their situation.
Stars: Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, Loretta Swit, Jamie Farr
Votes: 63,964
18. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023– )
TV-14 | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Set after the battle between Godzilla and the Titans, revealing that monsters are real, follows one family's journey to uncover its buried secrets and a legacy linking them to Monarch.
Stars: Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Joe Tippett
Votes: 41,524
19. Hannibal (2013–2015)
TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Explores the early relationship between renowned psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter and a young FBI criminal profiler who is haunted by his ability to empathize with serial killers.
Stars: Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Caroline Dhavernas, Laurence Fishburne
Votes: 277,420
20. The Lincoln Lawyer (2022– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Need a lawyer? Call Mickey Haller. He runs his law practice out of his Lincoln, and he's ready to hit the gas. Moving through Los Angeles, he takes cases while balancing a private life that includes being a father and having two ex-wives.
Stars: Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Becki Newton, Jazz Raycole, Angus Sampson
Votes: 65,066
21. The Young Offenders (2018– )
30 min | Comedy
Coming-of-age drama about lovable rogues Conor and Jock as they navigate their awkward teenage years, hatching plans and adventures to help distract from their tough home lives and their inability to stay out of trouble at school.
Stars: Alex Murphy, Hilary Rose, Chris Walley, Dominic MacHale
Votes: 4,720
22. Love, Death & Robots (2019– )
TV-MA | 15 min | Animation, Short, Action
A collection of animated short stories that span various genres including science fiction, fantasy, horror and comedy.
Stars: Fred Tatasciore, Scott Whyte, Nolan North, Noshir Dalal
Votes: 198,133
23. Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (2024– )
TV-PG | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure | Completed
Darius Bowman, a young paleontologist, discovers live dinosaurs in California's wilderness.
Stars: Paul-Mikél Williams, Darren Barnet, Sean Giambrone, Raini Rodriguez
24. Friday Night Lights (2006–2011)
TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Sport
A drama that follows the lives of the Dillon Panthers, one of the nation's best high school football teams, and their head coach Eric Taylor.
Stars: Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Zach Gilford, Aimee Teegarden
Votes: 72,655
25. Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2023– )
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Demigod Percy Jackson leads a quest across America to prevent a war among the Olympian gods.
Stars: Walker Scobell, Leah Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri, Virginia Kull
Votes: 36,161
26. Teen Wolf (2011– )
TV-14 | 41 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
An average high school student and his best friend get caught up in some trouble causing him to receive a werewolf bite. As a result they find themselves in the middle of all sorts of dramas in Beacon Hills.
Stars: Tyler Posey, Holland Roden, Dylan O'Brien, Linden Ashby
Votes: 163,682
27. Wrath of Man (2021)
R | 119 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A mysteriously stoic character is hired as a security guard by a cash truck company responsible for transporting a lot of money around Los Angeles each week.
Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Jason Statham, Holt McCallany, Josh Hartnett, Rocci Boy Williams
Votes: 208,995 | Gross: $27.47M
28. Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)
TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi must save young Leia after she is kidnapped, all the while being pursued by Imperial Inquisitors and his former Padawan now known as Darth Vader.
Stars: Ewan McGregor, Moses Ingram, Vivien Lyra Blair, Hayden Christensen
Votes: 230,884
29. Billy the Kid (2022– )
TV-MA | 49 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
An epic romantic adventure based on the life of Billy the Kid, from his humble Irish roots and his early days as a cowboy and gunslinger in the American frontier, to his pivotal role in the Lincoln County War and beyond.
Stars: Tom Blyth, Daniel Webber, Sean Owen Roberts, Shaun Benson
Votes: 7,352
30. The Heartbreak Kid (2007)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Romance
A newly wed man who believes he's just gotten hitched to the perfect woman encounters another lady on his honeymoon.
Directors: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly | Stars: Ben Stiller, Michelle Monaghan, Malin Akerman, Jerry Stiller
Votes: 96,690 | Gross: $36.79M
31. Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016)
PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.
Director: Paul Feig | Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones
Votes: 247,005 | Gross: $128.34M
32. In the Heat of the Night (1988–1995)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The cases and adventures of the police forces in and around Sparta, Mississippi.
Stars: Carroll O'Connor, Alan Autry, David Hart, Hugh O'Connor
Votes: 6,243
33. What If...? (2021– )
TV-14 | 32 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Exploring pivotal moments from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and turning them on their head, leading the audience into uncharted territory.
Stars: Jeffrey Wright, Terri Douglas, Matthew Wood, Robin Atkin Downes
Votes: 143,207
34. Welcome to Derry (2025– )
Horror | Filming
It will follow the events in the 1960s, the time leading up to the events of the first film in the Stephen King It series.
Stars: James Remar, Madeleine Stowe, Jovan Adepo, Taylour Paige
35. The Penguin (2024– )
Crime, Drama, Fantasy | Post-production
Following the events of "The Batman," Oswald Cobblepot, a.k.a. The Penguin, makes a play to seize the reins of the crime world in Gotham.
Stars: Colin Farrell, Cristin Milioti, Rhenzy Feliz, Myles Humphus
36. Planet of the Apes (1974)
TV-PG | 47 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Two astronauts and a sympathetic chimp friend are fugitives in a future Earth dominated by a civilization of humanoid apes.
Stars: Roddy McDowall, Ron Harper, James Naughton, Mark Lenard
Votes: 5,500
37. Scent of a Woman (1992)
R | 156 min | Drama
A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.
Director: Martin Brest | Stars: Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, James Rebhorn, Gabrielle Anwar
Votes: 329,948 | Gross: $63.90M
38. Death Race (2008)
R | 105 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Ex-con Jensen Ames is forced by the warden of a notorious prison to compete in our post-industrial world's most popular sport: a car race in which inmates must brutalize and kill one another on the road to victory.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane
Votes: 219,336 | Gross: $36.32M
39. Brothers (I) (2009)
R | 105 min | Drama, Thriller, War
While on tour in Afghanistan, Sam's helicopter is shot down and he is presumed dead. Back home, it is his screw-up brother who looks after the family. Sam does return, but with a lot of excess baggage.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire, Sam Shepard
Votes: 147,468 | Gross: $28.50M
40. Sweet Charity (1969)
G | 149 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith despite endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.
Director: Bob Fosse | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Ricardo Montalban, Sammy Davis Jr.
Votes: 6,808 | Gross: $3.43M
41. Chicago (2002)
PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
Two death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.
Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Taye Diggs
Votes: 243,741 | Gross: $170.69M
42. The Guilty (2021)
R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Riley Keough, Peter Sarsgaard, Christina Vidal
Votes: 149,470
43. Longing (II) (2024)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Drama | Completed
A business mogul runs into his old small town girlfriend while she is visiting the big city only to find out that they had a child together that he was unaware of. Based on an award winning foreign language film.
Director: Savi Gabizon | Stars: Diane Kruger, Richard Gere, Jessica Clement, Marnie McPhail
44. Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (2024)
R | 99 min | Comedy
Tanya's summer plans are canceled when her mom jets off for a last-minute retreat and the elderly babysitter who arrives at her door unexpectedly passes away.
Director: Wade Allain-Marcus | Stars: June Squibb, Danielle Harris, Jermaine Fowler, Iantha Richardson
Votes: 323
45. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008–2009)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
Set after the events in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Sarah Connor and her son, John, try to stay under-the-radar from the government, as they plot to destroy the computer network, Skynet, in hopes of preventing Armageddon.
Stars: Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker, Summer Glau, Richard T. Jones
Votes: 62,914
46. A Teacher (2020)
TV-MA | 25 min | Drama
A new teacher finds herself falling for one of her students.
Stars: Kate Mara, Nick Robinson, Ashley Zukerman, Rya Kihlstedt
Votes: 15,515
47. Retribution (I) (2023)
R | 91 min | Action, Thriller
A bank executive receives a bomb threat while driving his children to school that his car will explode if they stop and get out.
Director: Nimród Antal | Stars: Liam Neeson, Noma Dumezweni, Lilly Aspell, Jack Champion
Votes: 21,313
48. 12 Monkeys (2015–2018)
TV-14 | 42 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Follows the journey of a time traveler from the post-apocalyptic future who appears in present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will nearly destroy the human race.
Stars: Aaron Stanford, Amanda Schull, Noah Bean, Barbara Sukowa
Votes: 48,852
49. Obsession (2023)
TV-MA | 155 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
William falls in love with his soon-to-be daughter in law, Anna who's trying to keep both relationships but the truth always comes to light and someone is going to be hurt.
Stars: Richard Armitage, Rish Shah, Charlie Murphy, Indira Varma
Votes: 9,750
50. Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous (2020–2022)
TV-PG | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Six teens attending an adventure camp on the opposite side of Isla Nublar must band together to survive when dinosaurs wreak havoc on the island.
Stars: Paul-Mikél Williams, Kausar Mohammed, Raini Rodriguez, Jenna Ortega
Votes: 10,588