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1. Knives Out (2019)

PG-13 | 130 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

7.9
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82 Metascore

A detective investigates the death of the patriarch of an eccentric, combative family.

Director: Rian Johnson | Stars: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis

Votes: 776,156 | Gross: $165.36M

2. The Gift (VI) (2015)

R | 108 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

7.0
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77 Metascore

A married couple, Simon and Robyn, run into Gordo, an old classmate. Things take a turn when Gordo begins to drop in unannounced at their house and inundates them with mysterious gifts.

Director: Joel Edgerton | Stars: Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton, Allison Tolman

Votes: 172,672 | Gross: $43.77M

3. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

7.2
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56 Metascore

In the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons.

Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki

Votes: 333,515 | Gross: $45.45M

4. Queen of Hearts (2019)

Not Rated | 127 min | Drama

7.0
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67 Metascore

A successful lawyer jeopardizes her career and threatens to tear her family apart after engaging in an affair with her teenage stepson.

Director: May el-Toukhy | Stars: Trine Dyrholm, Gustav Lindh, Magnus Krepper, Liv Esmår Dannemann

Votes: 14,597

5. Jojo Rabbit (2019)

PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, War

7.9
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58 Metascore

A young German boy in the Hitler Youth whose hero and imaginary friend is the country's dictator is shocked to discover that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.

Director: Taika Waititi | Stars: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson, Taika Waititi

Votes: 442,748 | Gross: $33.37M

6. They Live (1988)

R | 94 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

7.2
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55 Metascore

They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, George 'Buck' Flower

Votes: 146,101 | Gross: $13.01M

7. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

Passed | 134 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

8.0
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75 Metascore

A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Wesley Addy

Votes: 62,093 | Gross: $4.05M

8. The Invisible Guest (2016)

TV-MA | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

8.0
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A successful entrepreneur accused of murder and a witness preparation expert have less than three hours to come up with an impregnable defense.

Director: Oriol Paulo | Stars: Mario Casas, Ana Wagener, Jose Coronado, Bárbara Lennie

Votes: 193,050

9. The Longest Ride (2015)

PG-13 | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

7.0
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33 Metascore

Sophia and Luke make an unexpected and fateful connection with Ira, a 90-years old man, when they save him from a car crash. Ira's memories of his own decades-long romance with his beloved wife deeply inspire the young couple.

Director: George Tillman Jr. | Stars: Scott Eastwood, Britt Robertson, Alan Alda, Jack Huston

Votes: 89,085 | Gross: $37.45M

10. And Your Mother Too (2001)

R | 106 min | Drama

7.7
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89 Metascore

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life and each other.

Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ana López Mercado

Votes: 129,049 | Gross: $13.62M

11. Death Becomes Her (1992)

PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

6.6
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56 Metascore

When a fading actress learns of an immortality treatment, she sees it as a way to outdo her long-time rival.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, Isabella Rossellini

Votes: 131,757 | Gross: $58.42M

12. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

PG-13 | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

7.6
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67 Metascore

The Guardians struggle to keep together as a team while dealing with their personal family issues, notably Star-Lord's encounter with his father, the ambitious celestial being Ego.

Director: James Gunn | Stars: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel

Votes: 761,442 | Gross: $389.81M

13. Palm Springs (2020)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery

7.4
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83 Metascore

Stuck in a time loop, two wedding guests develop a budding romance while living the same day over and over again.

Director: Max Barbakow | Stars: Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti, J.K. Simmons, Peter Gallagher

Votes: 183,501

14. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)

R | 110 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

6.7
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52 Metascore

A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy from the perspective of Liz, his longtime girlfriend, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

Director: Joe Berlinger | Stars: Lily Collins, Zac Efron, Angela Sarafyan, Sydney Vollmer

Votes: 103,766

15. Vivarium (2019)

R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

5.9
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64 Metascore

A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses.

Director: Lorcan Finnegan | Stars: Imogen Poots, Danielle Ryan, Molly McCann, Jesse Eisenberg

Votes: 74,361

16. The Babysitter (I) (2017)

TV-MA | 85 min | Comedy, Horror

6.4
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When Cole stays up past his bedtime, he discovers that his hot baby sitter belongs to a satanic cult that will stop at nothing to keep him quiet.

Director: McG | Stars: Judah Lewis, Samara Weaving, Robbie Amell, Hana Mae Lee

Votes: 108,592

17. Marrowbone (2017)

R | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

6.7
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63 Metascore

A young man and his three younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

Director: Sergio G. Sánchez | Stars: George MacKay, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Mia Goth

Votes: 39,754 | Gross: $0.00M

18. Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir

8.4
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94 Metascore

A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson

Votes: 236,925

19. Dude, Where's My Car? (2000)

PG-13 | 83 min | Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi

5.5
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30 Metascore

Two potheads wake up after a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car.

Director: Danny Leiner | Stars: Ashton Kutcher, Seann William Scott, Jennifer Garner, Marla Sokoloff

Votes: 146,024 | Gross: $46.73M

20. Wij (2018)

Unrated | 100 min | Drama

5.6
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Eight teens - four guys and four girls - are the best of friends. One summer, out of boredom they experiment with all manner of new means to entertain themselves. This degenerates into some extreme behaviour and will lead to tragedy.

Director: Rene Eller | Stars: Aimé Claeys, Tijmen Govaerts, Pauline Casteleyn, Maxime Jacobs

Votes: 3,402

21. The Witches (2020)

PG | 106 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

5.4
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47 Metascore

A young boy and his grandmother have a run-in with a coven of witches and their leader.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Chris Rock

Votes: 46,713 | Gross: $0.20M

22. Society (1989)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Horror

6.5
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50 Metascore

An ordinary teenage boy discovers his family is part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.

Director: Brian Yuzna | Stars: Billy Warlock, Concetta D'Agnese, Ben Slack, Evan Richards

Votes: 22,023

23. Dark Shadows (2012)

PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

6.2
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55 Metascore

An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Helena Bonham Carter

Votes: 280,827 | Gross: $79.73M

24. The Blob (1988)

R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

6.6
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A deadly entity from space crash-lands near a small town and begins consuming everyone in its path. Panic ensues as shady government scientists try to contain the horrific creature.

Director: Chuck Russell | Stars: Shawnee Smith, Kevin Dillon, Donovan Leitch Jr., Jeffrey DeMunn

Votes: 43,666 | Gross: $8.25M

25. Dirty Grandpa (2016)

R | 102 min | Comedy

5.9
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21 Metascore

Right before his wedding, an uptight guy is tricked into driving his grandfather, a lecherous former Army Lieutenant Colonel, to Florida for Spring Break.

Director: Dan Mazer | Stars: Robert De Niro, Zac Efron, Zoey Deutch, Aubrey Plaza

Votes: 133,567 | Gross: $35.59M

26. Men in Black: International (2019)

PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

5.6
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38 Metascore

The MIB tackle a mole in their organization.

Director: F. Gary Gray | Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Kumail Nanjiani, Rebecca Ferguson

Votes: 147,446 | Gross: $80.00M

27. Purple Noon (1960)

PG-13 | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

7.7
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Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.

Director: René Clément | Stars: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt, Erno Crisa

Votes: 19,534

28. Countdown (III) (2019)

PG-13 | 90 min | Horror, Thriller

5.4
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31 Metascore

When a nurse downloads an app that claims to predict the moment a person will die, it tells her she only has three days to live. With the clock ticking and a figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.

Director: Justin Dec | Stars: Elizabeth Lail, Jordan Calloway, Talitha Eliana Bateman, Peter Facinelli

Votes: 45,800

29. Rebecca (I) (2020)

PG-13 | 123 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

6.0
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46 Metascore

A young newlywed arrives at her husband's imposing family estate on a windswept English coast and finds herself battling the shadow of his first wife, Rebecca, whose legacy lives on in the house long after her death.

Director: Ben Wheatley | Stars: Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Keeley Hawes

Votes: 46,702

30. Addams Family Values (1993)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Fantasy

6.8
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61 Metascore

The Addams Family try to rescue their beloved Uncle Fester from his gold-digging new love, a black widow named Debbie.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Stars: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Joan Cusack

Votes: 109,872 | Gross: $48.92M

31. Neighbors (I) (2014)

R | 97 min | Comedy

6.3
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68 Metascore

After they are forced to live next to a fraternity house, a couple with a newborn baby do whatever they can to take them down.

Director: Nicholas Stoller | Stars: Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron, Lisa Kudrow

Votes: 329,872 | Gross: $150.16M

32. The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020)

TV-MA | 101 min | Comedy, Horror

5.8
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22 Metascore

Two years after Cole survived a satanic blood cult, he's living another nightmare: high school. And the demons from his past? Still making his life hell.

Director: McG | Stars: Judah Lewis, Samara Weaving, Jenna Ortega, Emily Alyn Lind

Votes: 51,159

33. Truth or Dare (I) (2018)

PG-13 | 100 min | Horror, Thriller

5.2
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35 Metascore

A harmless game of Truth or Dare among friends turns deadly when someone - or something - begins to punish those who tell a lie or refuse the dare.

Director: Jeff Wadlow | Stars: Lucy Hale, Tyler Posey, Violett Beane, Hayden Szeto

Votes: 63,531 | Gross: $41.41M

34. The Little Hours (2017)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Romance

5.8
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69 Metascore

In the Middle Ages, a young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns. Introduced as a deaf mute man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.

Director: Jeff Baena | Stars: Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Kate Micucci, Aubrey Plaza

Votes: 25,523 | Gross: $1.65M

35. Sleepaway Camp (1983)

R | 84 min | Horror

6.2
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58 Metascore

Bunks and showers are a mad stabber's beat at a summer camp strictly for teens.

Director: Robert Hiltzik | Stars: Felissa Rose, Jonathan Tiersten, Karen Fields, Christopher Collet

Votes: 38,190 | Gross: $11.00M

36. The Samurai (1967)

GP | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

8.0
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90 Metascore

After professional hitman Jef Costello is seen by witnesses his efforts to provide himself an alibi drive him further into a corner.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier

Votes: 57,396 | Gross: $0.04M

37. The Pledge (I) (2001)

R | 124 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

6.8
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71 Metascore

A retiring police detective pledges to catch the killer of a young child.

Director: Sean Penn | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Clarkson, Beau Daniels

Votes: 67,912 | Gross: $19.72M

38. Greta (2018)

R | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

6.0
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54 Metascore

A young woman befriends a lonely widow who's harboring a dark and deadly agenda toward her.

Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Chloë Grace Moretz, Maika Monroe, Jane Perry

Votes: 38,193 | Gross: $10.52M

39. Sleep Tight (2011)

Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

7.2
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70 Metascore

Cesar, a miserable man who works as an apartment concierge, takes a special interest in an attractive woman who lives there. He goes to great lengths to trouble her.

Director: Jaume Balagueró | Stars: Luis Tosar, Marta Etura, Alberto San Juan, Petra Martínez

Votes: 46,800

40. Ma (I) (2019)

R | 99 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

5.6
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53 Metascore

A lonely woman befriends a group of teenagers and decides to let them party at her house. Just when the kids think their luck couldn't get any better, things start happening that make them question the intention of their host.

Director: Tate Taylor | Stars: Octavia Spencer, Diana Silvers, Juliette Lewis, McKaley Miller

Votes: 59,773 | Gross: $45.37M

41. Freeway (1996)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

6.8
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61 Metascore

A twisted take on "Little Red Riding Hood", with a teenage juvenile delinquent on the run from a social worker travelling to her grandmother's house and being hounded by a charming, but sadistic, serial killer and pedophile.

Director: Matthew Bright | Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Bokeem Woodbine, Paul Perri

Votes: 31,849 | Gross: $0.30M

42. Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

R | 119 min | Drama, Romance

7.5
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74 Metascore

A scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman.

Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz

Votes: 75,283 | Gross: $34.70M

43. Out of the Blue (II) (2022)

R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

4.4
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39 Metascore

Connor, a man whose dull life is transformed into a thrilling fantasy world thanks to the seductive Marilyn.

Director: Neil LaBute | Stars: Diane Kruger, Ray Nicholson, Gia Crovatin, Hank Azaria

Votes: 1,414

44. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)

R | 92 min | Comedy

5.7
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58 Metascore

When their new next-door neighbors turn out to be a sorority even more debaucherous than the fraternity that lived there before, Mac and Kelly team with their former enemy, Teddy, to bring the girls down.

Director: Nicholas Stoller | Stars: Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron, Chloë Grace Moretz

Votes: 130,352 | Gross: $55.46M

45. Employee of the Month (2006)

PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Romance

5.6
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36 Metascore

A slacker competes with a repeat winner for the "Employee of the Month" title at work, in order to gain the affections of a new female employee.

Director: Greg Coolidge | Stars: Jessica Simpson, Dane Cook, Dax Shepard, Andy Dick

Votes: 50,231 | Gross: $28.44M

46. 1922 (2017)

TV-MA | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

6.2
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70 Metascore

A simple yet proud farmer in the year 1922 conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to assist. But their actions have unintended consequences.

Director: Zak Hilditch | Stars: Thomas Jane, Molly Parker, Dylan Schmid, Kaitlyn Bernard

Votes: 71,847

47. Summer of 84 (2018)

Not Rated | 105 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

6.7
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57 Metascore

After suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence, but as they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous.

Directors: François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell | Stars: Graham Verchere, Judah Lewis, Caleb Emery, Cory Gruter-Andrew

Votes: 46,114 | Gross: $0.09M

48. The Body (2012)

Not Rated | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

7.6
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A detective searches for the body of a femme fatale which has gone missing from a morgue.

Director: Oriol Paulo | Stars: Jose Coronado, Hugo Silva, Belén Rueda, Aura Garrido

Votes: 72,655

49. Gaslight (1944)

Passed | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

7.8
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78 Metascore

Ten years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the home rises from a secret that may require driving his wife insane.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, May Whitty

Votes: 34,022

50. The Young Offenders (2016)

83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

7.1
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Two teenage boys cycle 160km on stolen bikes pursued by police to find a missing bale of cocaine worth 7 million euro. Set around the real event of Ireland's biggest cocaine seizure in 2007 of 440 million euro.

Director: Peter Foott | Stars: Alex Murphy, Chris Walley, Hilary Rose, Dominic MacHale

Votes: 13,326



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