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1. Fight Club (1999)
R | 139 min | Drama
An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf, Zach Grenier
Votes: 2,307,992 | Gross: $37.03M
2. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
R | 153 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent
Votes: 1,573,865 | Gross: $120.54M
3. The Nice Guys (2016)
R | 116 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
In 1970s Los Angeles, a mismatched pair of private eyes investigate a missing girl and the mysterious death of a porn star.
Director: Shane Black | Stars: Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice, Matt Bomer
Votes: 369,984 | Gross: $36.26M
4. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
R | 174 min | Drama, Romance
A filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili, Isa Danieli
Votes: 281,252 | Gross: $11.99M
5. The Blob (1988)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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: 43,084 | Gross: $8.25M
6. Last Action Hero (1993)
PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
With the help of a magic ticket, a young movie fan is transported into the fictional world of his favorite action movie character.
Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, F. Murray Abraham, Art Carney, Charles Dance
Votes: 162,969 | Gross: $50.02M
7. Quadrophenia (1979)
R | 120 min | Drama, Music
Jimmy Cooper loathes his dead-end job and his working-class parents. He seeks solace with his mod clique, scooter riding, and drugs, only to be disappointed.
Director: Franc Roddam | Stars: Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Phil Davis, Mark Wingett
Votes: 20,753
8. Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself.
Director: Susan Seidelman | Stars: Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn, Mark Blum
Votes: 25,861 | Gross: $27.40M
9. Evita (1996)
PG | 135 min | Biography, Drama, History
The hit musical based on the life of Eva Perón (Evita Duarte), a B-picture Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Domingo Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Madonna, Jonathan Pryce, Antonio Banderas, Jimmy Nail
Votes: 37,465 | Gross: $50.05M
10. Close Your Eyes (2023)
169 min | Drama
A Spanish actor disappears during the filming of a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at the edge of a cliff. Many years later, the mystery returns to the present day.
Director: Víctor Erice | Stars: Manolo Solo, Jose Coronado, Ana Torrent, Petra Martínez
Votes: 2,424
11. Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy (1994)
100 min | Comedy, Horror
A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.
Director: Alain Berbérian | Stars: Chantal Lauby, Alain Chabat, Dominique Farrugia, Gérard Darmon
Votes: 10,359
12. Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.
Director: Gary Fleder | Stars: Andy Garcia, Christopher Walken, Christopher Lloyd, William Forsythe
Votes: 29,685 | Gross: $0.53M
13. Bulletproof Monk (2003)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Based on the very underground comic book of the same name, a Tibetan monk becomes a mentor to a young street punk and tries teaching him how to protect the scroll of ultimate power from a secret Nazi organization bent on world domination.
Director: Paul Hunter | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Seann William Scott, Jaime King, Karel Roden
Votes: 52,077 | Gross: $23.02M
14. Nightmare Cinema (2018)
R | 119 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Five strangers converge at a haunted movie theater owned by The Projectionist. Once inside, the audience members witness a series of screenings showing them their deepest fears and darkest secrets over five tales.
Directors: Alejandro Brugués, Joe Dante, Mick Garris, Ryûhei Kitamura, David Slade | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Sarah Elizabeth Withers, Faly Rakotohavana, Maurice Benard
Votes: 5,087
15. Targets (1968)
R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An aging horror star questions his place in modern Hollywood, while a disturbed young man goes on a killing spree.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Nancy Hsueh, James Brown
Votes: 11,288
16. Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Passed | 45 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
Director: Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly
Votes: 56,489 | Gross: $0.98M
17. Silent Movie (1976)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy
A film director and his strange friends struggle to produce the first major silent feature film in forty years.
Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Sid Caesar
Votes: 18,413 | Gross: $36.15M
18. The Other Side of the Wind (2018)
R | 122 min | Drama
At a media-swamped party to celebrate his 70th birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead actor.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: John Huston, Oja Kodar, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg
Votes: 8,005
19. Wish You Were Here (1987)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. She eventually becomes pregnant by an acquaintance of her father.
Director: David Leland | Stars: Emily Lloyd, Trudi Cavanagh, Clare Clifford, Barbara Durkin
Votes: 3,309 | Gross: $3.28M
20. A Monster in Paris (2011)
PG | 90 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A 3D-animated movie set in Paris in the year 1910 and centered on a monster who lives in a garden and his love for a beautiful, young singer.
Director: Bibo Bergeron | Stars: Matthieu Chedid, Vanessa Paradis, Gad Elmaleh, François Cluzet
Votes: 22,605
21. Vanishing on 7th Street (2010)
R | 92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The population of Detroit has almost completely disappeared, but a few remain. As daylight disappears they realize that the Dark is coming for them.
Director: Brad Anderson | Stars: Hayden Christensen, Thandiwe Newton, John Leguizamo, Jacob Latimore
Votes: 27,259 | Gross: $0.02M
22. Porno (2019)
TV-MA | 98 min | Comedy, Horror
When five teen employees at the local movie theater in a small Christian town discover a mysterious old film hidden in its basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education...written in blood.
Director: Keola Racela | Stars: Evan Daves, Larry Saperstein, Jillian Mueller, Glenn Stott
Votes: 2,612
23. The Tingler (1959)
Not Rated | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An obsessed pathologist discovers and captures a parasitic creature that grows when fear grips its host.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts
Votes: 9,392
24. Fortress of War (2010)
Not Rated | 138 min | Action, Drama, History
A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.
Director: Aleksandr Kott | Stars: Aleksey Kopashov, Andrey Merzlikin, Pavel Derevyanko, Aleksandr Korshunov
Votes: 10,475
25. Chillerama (2011)
Not Rated | 120 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
It's the closing night at the last drive-in theatre in America, and manager, Cecil Kaufman's planned to show 4 movies; films so rare, they've never been exhibited publicly on American soil, until tonight.
Directors: Adam Green, Joe Lynch, Bear McCreary, Adam Rifkin, Tim Sullivan | Stars: Adam Rifkin, Sarah Mutch, Ray Wise, Lin Shaye
Votes: 4,830
26. Kings of the Road (1976)
Not Rated | 175 min | Drama
A traveling projection-equipment mechanic works in Western Germany along the East-German border, visiting worn-out theatres. He meets with a depressed young man whose marriage has just broken up, and the two decide to travel together.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer, Rudolf Schündler
Votes: 6,372
27. Clash by Night (1952)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas, Marilyn Monroe
Votes: 7,317
28. How to Make a Monster (1958)
Unrated | 73 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When a master monster make-up artist is sacked by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.
Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Robert H. Harris, Paul Brinegar, Gary Conway, Gary Clarke
Votes: 1,512
29. Apartment Zero (1988)
R | 124 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In early 1980s Buenos Aires, a struggling movie theater owner takes in a roommate but suspects he is responsible for a series of political assassinations.
Director: Martin Donovan | Stars: Hart Bochner, Colin Firth, Dora Bryan, Liz Smith
Votes: 4,224 | Gross: $0.67M
30. Evil Dead Trap 2 (1992)
97 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A female projectionist suddenly comes to the self-realization that she just in fact may be a serial killer responsible for brutally murdering everyone around her.
Director: Izô Hashimoto | Stars: Shoko Nakajima, Rie Kondoh, Shirô Sano, Shino Ikenami
Votes: 847
31. The Inner Circle (1991)
PG-13 | 137 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The true story of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin's private film projectionist from 1939 until the dictator's death. Told from Sanchin's view, the sympathetic but tragically ... See full summary »
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Tom Hulce, Lolita Davidovich, Aleksandr Zbruev, Bob Hoskins
Votes: 2,163 | Gross: $0.58M
32. Blood Theatre (1984)
R | 75 min | Comedy, Horror
An old movie house plagued with a history of unexplained tragedies is reopened with bloody history repeating itself
Director: Rick Sloane | Stars: Mary Woronov, Jenny Cunningham, Jonathan Blakely, Andrew Cofrin
Votes: 978
33. Popcorn (2007)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
Too insecure to approach the girl of his dreams, Danny takes a job at the local multiplex where she works.
Director: Darren Paul Fisher | Stars: Jack Ryder, Jodi Albert, Andrew Lee Potts, Luke de Woolfson
Votes: 1,004
34. Bye Bye Brazil (1980)
R | 110 min | Drama
The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Diegues | Stars: José Wilker, Betty Faria, Fábio Jr., Zaira Zambelli
Votes: 1,942
35. The Barefoot Executive (1971)
G | 96 min | Comedy, Family
A mailroom clerk and a chimp team up to pick hit TV shows.
Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Harry Morgan, Wally Cox
Votes: 2,052
36. Big Time Operators (1957)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy
A young couple inherits a debt-ridden old movie theater, appropriately nicknamed "The Flea Pit", and the three eccentric senior citizens who work there.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers
Votes: 2,233
37. Deep Jaws (1976)
Unrated | 89 min | Comedy
A bankrupt studio schemes the government to finance a sexploitation mermaids film. Casting couches thus join the already exploitive studio. Meanwhile, the Secretary of State arranges an affair with the studio head's buxom wife Henrietta.
Director: Perry Dell | Stars: Sandy Carey, Byron Clark, Michael Darrin, Roxanne Brewer
Votes: 212
38. La pretora (1976)
98 min | Comedy
Intransigent magistrate Viola Orlando is targeted by her rivals who hire her twin sister Rosa, a high-class prostitute and pornographic photo-novel star, to visit Rome and to set her up to ... See full summary »
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Edwige Fenech, Raf Luca, Giancarlo Dettori, Mario Maranzana
Votes: 461
39. Here Is Your Life (1966)
M | 110 min | Drama
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving from job to job and meeting a variety of individuals who gradually shape his future.
Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Eddie Axberg, Gudrun Brost, Ulla Akselson, Bo Wahlström
Votes: 1,241
40. A Bread Factory, Part One (2018)
122 min | Comedy, Drama
After 40 years of running their community arts space, The Bread Factory, Dorothea and Greta are suddenly fighting for survival when a celebrity couple--performance artists from China--come ... See full summary »
Director: Patrick Wang | Stars: Tyne Daly, Elisabeth Henry, James Marsters, Shershah Mizan
Votes: 462 | Gross: $0.02M
41. The Good Life (2007)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
A young man (Webber) is encouraged by a new friend (Deschanel) to cope with living in a town into which he doesn't necessarily fit.
Director: Stephen Berra | Stars: Mark Webber, Zooey Deschanel, Harry Dean Stanton, Bill Paxton
Votes: 2,340
42. Joni's Promise (2005)
TV-PG | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A film delivery man promises a beautiful young woman to deliver a film reel on time to a movie theater. But the the whole city seems to conspire against him.
Director: Joko Anwar | Stars: Nicholas Saputra, Mariana Renata, Rachel Maryam Sayidina, Surya Saputra
Votes: 1,536
43. Midnight Movie Massacre (1988)
85 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A Martian begins to attack the patrons and staff of a movie theater during the 1950's as a low budget science fiction film plays on the screen.
Directors: Laurence Jacobs, Mark Stock | Stars: Robert Clarke, Ann Robinson, David Staffer, Tom Hutsler
Votes: 269
44. Perhaps Love (2005)
108 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A love triangle develops during the making of a musical in mainland China.
Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan | Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Xun Zhou, Jacky Cheung, Ji Jin-hee
Votes: 2,697
45. Coming Soon (2008)
95 min | Horror, Thriller
What kind of scenes in a horror film scares you the most? When a ghost appears totally unexpectedly? When the main character does not see the ghost sneaking up behind him? When at the very ... See full summary »
Director: Sophon Sakdaphisit | Stars: Vorakarn Rojjanavatchra, Chantavit Dhanasevi, Sarinrat Thomas, Thanatorn Oudsahakul
Votes: 3,108
46. The Projectionist (1970)
GP | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A projectionist bored with his everyday life begins fantasizing about his being one of the superheroes he sees in the movies he shows.
Director: Harry Hurwitz | Stars: Chuck McCann, Ina Balin, Rodney Dangerfield, Jára Kohout
Votes: 431
47. Ginger Meggs (1982)
100 min | Comedy, History
The escapades of Ginger Meggs, local larrikin. He's trying to win the heart of Minnie Peters, but the pressures of school, his rival Eddie Coogan and bully Tiger Kelly make life tough for him. Besides, there's fishing to be done.
Director: Jonathan Dawson | Stars: Garry McDonald, Coral Drouyn, Paul Daniel, Rowan Hillard
Votes: 157
48. Splendor (1989)
115 min | Drama
Jordan, forced to close his movie theater due to financial problems, recalls the events, the characters and the films that marked his life.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi, Marina Vlady, Paolo Panelli
Votes: 1,045
49. Hunting Humans (2002 Video)
R | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Meet Aric Blue. He's young. He's handsome. He's successful. He's also a serial killer. He picks his victims at random, stalking them and taking advantage of the patterns in their life to ... See full summary »
Director: Kevin Kangas | Stars: Rick Ganz, Bubby Lewis, Lisa Michele, Trent
Votes: 483
50. The Preview Murder Mystery (1936)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A public relations man for a movie studio uses an early form of television to help solve a murder.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Frances Drake, Reginald Denny, Gail Patrick, George Barbier
Votes: 299