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1. Bones and All (2022)
R | 131 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A young woman embarks on a 1000 mile odyssey through America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether love can survive their otherness.
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell, Mark Rylance, Kendle Coffey
Votes: 58,190
2. Basic Instinct (1992)
R | 127 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Votes: 219,292 | Gross: $117.73M
3. Last Night in Soho (2021)
R | 116 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Aspiring fashion designer Eloise is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s, where she encounters dazzling wannabe singer Sandie. But the glamour is not as it seems, and the dreams of the past crack and splinter into something darker.
Director: Edgar Wright | Stars: Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Diana Rigg
Votes: 177,239
4. The Reader (2008)
R | 124 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain
Votes: 260,034 | Gross: $34.19M
5. The Neon Demon (2016)
R | 117 min | Horror, Thriller
An aspiring model, Jesse, is new to Los Angeles. However, her beauty and youth, which generate intense fascination and jealousy within the fashion industry, may prove themselves sinister.
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn | Stars: Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reeves, Karl Glusman
Votes: 103,983 | Gross: $1.33M
6. Misery (1990)
R | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen
Votes: 235,767 | Gross: $61.28M
7. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
R | 105 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of three people; the culprit is legendary apparition The Headless Horseman.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon
Votes: 384,082 | Gross: $101.07M
8. High Tension (2003)
R | 91 min | Horror
Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror.
Director: Alexandre Aja | Stars: Cécile de France, Maïwenn, Philippe Nahon, Franck Khalfoun
Votes: 77,903 | Gross: $3.68M
9. Machete (2010)
R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.
Directors: Ethan Maniquis, Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba
Votes: 204,118 | Gross: $26.59M
10. Trilogy of Terror (1975 TV Movie)
Unrated | 72 min | Horror, Thriller
Three bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Robert Burton, John Karlen, George Gaynes, Jim Storm
Votes: 8,726
11. The Last House on the Left (1972)
R | 84 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
Two teenage girls heading to a rock concert for one's birthday try to score marijuana in the city, where they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychopathic convicts.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Sandra Peabody, Lucy Grantham, David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln
Votes: 40,308 | Gross: $3.10M
12. Phenomena (1985)
R | 116 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A young girl who has an amazing ability to communicate with insects is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro
Votes: 30,079
13. Serial Mom (1994)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
She's the perfect all-American parent: a great cook and homemaker, a devoted recycler, and a woman who'll literally kill to keep her children happy.
Director: John Waters | Stars: Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki Lake, Matthew Lillard
Votes: 32,674 | Gross: $7.88M
14. Diabolique (1955)
Not Rated | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel
Votes: 69,428 | Gross: $1.09M
15. The Crime Is Mine (2023)
102 min | Comedy, Crime
Paris, France, 1935, and a young actress has just been acquitted of murdering a famous French Producer. However, this is where the story just begins. Is she really innocent?, or has she gotten away with Murder?
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert, Fabrice Luchini
Votes: 4,940
16. Lust for a Vampire (1971)
R | 91 min | Horror
In 1830, forty years to the day since the last manifestation of their dreaded vampirism, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla.
Director: Jimmy Sangster | Stars: Barbara Jefford, Ralph Bates, Suzanna Leigh, Yutte Stensgaard
Votes: 3,567
17. Carrie (2002 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 132 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Carrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both her classmates and her domineering, religious mother.
Director: David Carson | Stars: Angela Bettis, Patricia Clarkson, Rena Sofer, Kandyse McClure
Votes: 11,472
18. My Teacher, My Obsession (2018 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama, Thriller
Riley struggles to make friends after transferring to a new high school where her father is an English teacher. When she meets fellow loner Kyla, they become close friends--until Riley learns that Kyla is obsessed with her father.
Director: Damián Romay | Stars: Rusty Joiner, Lucy Loken, Laura Bilgeri, Jana Lee Hamblin
Votes: 2,762
19. 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: 30,647 | Gross: $16.24M
20. The Horror of Dolores Roach (2023)
18+ | 29 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
When Dolores Roach is released after an unjust prison sentence, she reunites with an old friend who lets her work as a masseuse. When the promise of her newfound stability is threatened, Dolores is driven to shocking extremes to survive.
Stars: Justina Machado, Alejandro Hernandez, K. Todd Freeman, Kita Updike
Votes: 5,690
21. Tragedy Girls (2017)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A twist on the slasher genre, following two death-obsessed teenage girls who use their online show about real-life tragedies to send their small mid-western town into a frenzy, and cement their legacy as modern horror legends.
Director: Tyler MacIntyre | Stars: Brianna Hildebrand, Alexandra Shipp, Jack Quaid, Kevin Durand
Votes: 11,619 | Gross: $0.06M
22. Appointment with Death (1988)
PG | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a former prison wardress who dominates the lives of her three adult stepchildren and her daughter is found dead at an archaeological dig near the Dead Sea, there are a great many suspects.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gielgud
Votes: 6,056 | Gross: $0.96M
23. The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
PG | 105 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Miss Jane Marple comes to solve the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, Geraldine Chaplin
Votes: 9,442
24. The Baby (1973)
PG | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A social worker, still reeling from the loss of her architect husband, investigates the eccentric, psychedelic Wadsworth Family, consisting of a mother, two daughters, and an adult son with the apparent mental capacity of an infant.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: Anjanette Comer, Ruth Roman, Marianna Hill, Susanne Zenor
Votes: 4,386
25. Fascination (1979)
Not Rated | 80 min | Horror
A runaway criminal breaks into an eerie chateau, taking its two frightened chambermaids hostage. As night falls, a group of mysterious aristocratic women arrive and the criminal begins to realize the women are hiding a sinister secret.
Director: Jean Rollin | Stars: Franca Maï, Brigitte Lahaie, Jean-Marie Lemaire, Fanny Magier
Votes: 3,551
26. The Limehouse Golem (2016)
Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
In Victorian London, a Scotland Yard inspector hunts down the sadistic killer behind a series of gory, Jack the Ripper-Like murders.
Director: Juan Carlos Medina | Stars: Douglas Booth, Olivia Cooke, Sam Reid, María Valverde
Votes: 23,328
27. The Killing Gene (2007)
R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A calculating killer coerces a detective to pay for his previous mistakes.
Director: Tom Shankland | Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Melissa George, Ashley Walters, Tom Hardy
Votes: 9,341
28. Big Nothing (2006)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A frustrated, unemployed professor joins forces with a scammer and a friend of his in a blackmailing scheme.
Director: Jean-Baptiste Andrea | Stars: David Schwimmer, Simon Pegg, Alice Eve, Jon Polito
Votes: 31,839
29. That Cold Day in the Park (1969)
R | 113 min | Drama, Thriller
One day, Frances Austen, a rich but lonely woman, invites a young man from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him stay there--and has no intention of ever letting him leave.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Sandy Dennis, Michael Burns, Susanne Benton, David Garfield
Votes: 2,281 | Gross: $1.06M
30. The Deal (2022)
80 min | Drama, Thriller
At first glance, Cat and Borja are the perfect couple but like every marriage, they hide secrets, lies, and infidelities from each other. All of them will surface the same night they receive an unexpected visitor.
Director: Koko Stambuk | Stars: Óscar Jaenada, Maite Perroni, Manuel Vega, Paulina Dávila
Votes: 378
31. Sound of Violence (II) (2021)
94 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A young killer experiences intense pleasure whenever she hears the sound of human pain.
Director: Alex Noyer | Stars: Jasmin Savoy Brown, Lili Simmons, James Jagger, Tessa Munro
Votes: 1,225
32. The Method (2015– )
TV-MA | 53 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An ambitious young law enforcement graduate is thrilled when her idol takes her on as a trainee. But his methods aren't anything like she imagined.
Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Paulina Andreeva, Kirill Polukhin, Alexander Petrov
Votes: 3,328
33. The Maltese Falcon (1931)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges, Una Merkel
Votes: 3,352
34. Prevenge (2016)
TV-MA | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Widow Ruth is seven months pregnant when, believing herself to be guided by her unborn baby, she embarks on a homicidal rampage, dispatching anyone who stands in her way.
Director: Alice Lowe | Stars: Alice Lowe, Dan Renton Skinner, Jo Hartley, Tom Davis
Votes: 8,619
35. A Gorgeous Girl Like Me (1972)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Young sociologist Stanislas Previne is preparing a thesis on criminal women. He meets Camille Bliss in prison to interview her. Camille is accused of murdering her husband Clovis and her ... See full summary »
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Claude Brasseur, Charles Denner, Guy Marchand
Votes: 2,775
36. The Girl Who Killed Her Parents (2021)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A psychological thriller surrounding the real murders of Manfred and Marísia von Richthofen orchestrated by their own daughter, Suzane, along with her boyfriend and brother-in-law, the Cravinhos brothers.
Director: Mauricio Eça | Stars: Leonardo Bittencourt, Carla Diaz, Allan Souza Lima, Vera Zimmermann
Votes: 3,785
37. I, Olga Hepnarova (2016)
Not Rated | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on the true life of Olga Hepnarová, a young Czech woman who became a rampage killer in 1973.
Directors: Petr Kazda, Tomás Weinreb | Stars: Michalina Olszanska, Martin Pechlát, Klára Melísková, Marika Soposká
Votes: 2,723
38. The Grissom Gang (1971)
R | 128 min | Crime, Drama
Set in the Depression, a gang of half-witted small-time hoods led by Slim Grissom kidnap heiress Barbara Blandish and Slim proceeds to fall in love with her. Remake of the British film No ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante, Robert Lansing
Votes: 1,475
39. Time Now (2021)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
A young mother returns to her estranged hometown of Detroit after the sudden death of her twin brother and immerses herself in his friend group, soon discovering that his death is not what it seems.
Director: Spencer King | Stars: Eleanor Lambert, Claudia Black, Xxavier Polk, Paige Kendrick
Votes: 302
40. Strange Bargain (1949)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In order to cash-in a life insurance policy, a failing business owner asks one of his employees, who has financial woes of his own, to aid him in disguising his suicide into a robbery-murder.
Director: Will Price | Stars: Martha Scott, Jeffrey Lynn, Harry Morgan, Katherine Emery
Votes: 864
41. Unwanted Guest (2016 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 86 min | Drama, Thriller
Christine brings her friend Amy home for holiday break to give her a place to stay. But Amy has ulterior motives and soon tries to seduce the father.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Kate Mansi, Ted King, Valentina Novakovic, Beth Littleford
Votes: 585
42. Deadtime Stories (1986)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
"Deadtime Stories" is a 1986 horror anthology, where a babysitting uncle tells his nephew three horror stories about killer witches, Little Red Riding Hood and a werewolf, and "Goldi Lox" and the three bears.
Director: Jeffrey Delman | Stars: Scott Valentine, Nicole Picard, Matt Mitler, Cathryn de Prume
Votes: 2,573 | Gross: $2.75M
43. She Wolf (2013)
Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
She Wolf is a serial killer who traps her men in the subway in Buenos Aires. She seduces, has sex with them and kills them. But one of those men is a police officer who is investigating her... See full summary »
Director: Tamae Garateguy | Stars: Mónica Lairana, Guadalupe Docampo, Luján Ariza, Edgardo Castro
Votes: 175
44. Blood Relatives (1978)
R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Homicide detective Steve Carella is trying to solve the brutal murder of 17-year-old Muriel Stark. Her younger cousin Patricia, who saw the killer and barely escaped with her life, helps him. However, the case soon takes a bizarre turn.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Aude Landry, Lisa Langlois, Laurent Malet
Votes: 1,143
45. Devoured (2012)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Lourdes is a young woman that works at night cleaning a restaurant. All the money she made is for her son that lives in her hometown with her mother. We know very little about Lourdes son, ... See full summary »
Director: Greg Olliver | Stars: Marta Milans, Kara Jackson, Bruno Gunn, Tyler Hollinger
Votes: 1,756
46. Someone Is Bleeding (1974)
R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa, he meets Marc, a lawyer who has a strange relationship with the girl. Marc tells François that Peggy is a drug addict: she kills men who approach her.
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Claude Brasseur, Fiore Altoviti
Votes: 1,032
47. Trash Fire (2016)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
When Owen is forced to confront the past he's been running from his whole adult life, he and his girlfriend, Isabel, become entangled in a horrifying web of lies, deceit and murder.
Director: Richard Bates Jr. | Stars: Adrian Grenier, Angela Trimbur, Fionnula Flanagan, AnnaLynne McCord
Votes: 3,306
48. Murder Weapon (1989)
81 min | Horror, Thriller
Two daughters of mobsters get out of the sanitarium after having killed a boyfriend in the shower, supposedly cured and on the right track. They hold a party and invite all their old ... See full summary »
Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Lyle Waggoner, Linnea Quigley, Karen Russell, Stephen Steward
Votes: 662
49. The Ghastly Ones (1968)
Not Rated | 81 min | Horror
Three married couples are forced to spend the night in a Victorian-era house where they start getting killed off by a deranged psycho who's bent on claiming an inheritance they are all entitled to.
Director: Andy Milligan | Stars: Veronica Radburn, Maggie Rogers, Hal Borske, Anne Linden
Votes: 813
50. The Mafu Cage (1978)
R | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Ellen, a successful astronomer, cares for her mentally-ill sister, Cissy, who keeps a variety of primates in the home they inherited from their anthropologist father. When Ellen begins a romance, Cissy's jealousy proves deadly.
Director: Karen Arthur | Stars: Lee Grant, Carol Kane, Will Geer, James Olson
Votes: 710