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1. The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
R | 114 min | Comedy, Drama
Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
Director: Martin McDonagh | Stars: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Pat Shortt
Votes: 252,257
2. Madagascar (2005)
PG | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A group of animals who have spent all their life in a New York zoo end up in the jungles of Madagascar, and must adjust to living in the wild.
Directors: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath | Stars: Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith
Votes: 436,979 | Gross: $193.60M
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
TV-14 | 124 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the aftermath of World War II, a writer forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey Island when she decides to write a book about their experiences during the war.
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Courtenay, Michiel Huisman, Katherine Parkinson
Votes: 52,549
4. Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)
PG | 93 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The Madagascar animals join a struggling European circus to get back to New York, but find themselves being pursued by a psychotic animal-control officer.
Directors: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon | Stars: Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett Smith, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer
Votes: 197,679 | Gross: $216.39M
5. Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987)
R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
In Hawaii, an undercover DEA agent and her civilian friend stumble upon a drug trafficking operation, and have to enlist the help of all their colleagues/friends to go after the vicious drug kingpin.
Director: Andy Sidaris | Stars: Ronn Moss, Dona Speir, Hope Marie Carlton, Harold Diamond
Votes: 5,346
6. Baltic Crimes (2014– )
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Crime series set on the German Poland border. Police gain the help of an ex convict, a former prosecutor convicted of murder.. With her experience and help the crimes are solved whilst she deals with family and community issues.
Stars: Katrin Sass, Rainer Sellien, Max Hopp, Rikke Lylloff
Votes: 459
7. Midway (1976)
PG | 132 min | Action, Drama, History
A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford
Votes: 21,468
8. Key Largo (1948)
Approved | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A man visits his war buddy's family hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 43,931
9. I Am Cuba (1964)
Not Rated | 141 min | Drama
Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov | Stars: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Raúl García
Votes: 10,638
10. Island of the Blue Dolphins (1964)
93 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The story of a Native American girl, abandoned on a tiny island, who is protected by a wild dog.
Director: James B. Clark | Stars: Celia Milius, Larry Domasin, Ann Daniel, Carlos Romero
Votes: 545
11. Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Approved | 100 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara, Forrest Tucker
Votes: 11,395
12. Affair in Trinidad (1952)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Nightclub singer and her brother-in-law try to find her husband's killer.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Alexander Scourby, Valerie Bettis
Votes: 3,079
13. Stromboli (1950)
Approved | 81 min | Drama
Karin, a young woman from the Baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prison camp. But she cannot get used to the tough life in Antonio's volcano-threatened village, Stromboli.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana, Mario Sponzo
Votes: 7,949
14. England Is Mine (2017)
Not Rated | 94 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A portrait of Morrissey and his early life in 1970s Manchester before he went on to become the lead singer of seminal alternative rock band The Smiths.
Director: Mark Gill | Stars: Jodie Comer, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jack Lowden, Peter McDonald
Votes: 3,778
15. Widow of St. Pierre (2000)
R | 112 min | Drama, History, Romance
In a small French colony, a drunken man kills someone. While a guillotine is being shipped in, he changes, becoming a good and popular man.
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil, Emir Kusturica, Michel Duchaussoy
Votes: 5,729 | Gross: $3.06M
16. Malta Story (1953)
97 min | Drama, History, War
1942 and the island of Malta is battling for survival. The threat of invasion by Axis forces is increasing as air raids wear down its defence. Entering this maelstrom is Flight Lieutenant Peter Ross, an RAF photo-reconnaissance pilot.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel, Muriel Pavlow
Votes: 1,960
17. The Kings of Mykonos (2010)
102 min | Comedy
Steve 'The Wog Boy' Karamitsis inherits a beach on the resort island of Mykonos from an uncle he's never met.
Director: Peter Andrikidis | Stars: Nick Giannopoulos, Vince Colosimo, Zeta Makrypoulia, Alex Dimitriades
Votes: 2,692
18. Iona (2015)
85 min | Drama
Iona takes her teenage son to the holy island where she was born so they can hide from a violent crime. As her son seeks forgiveness for what he has done Iona comes to terms with her loss of faith.
Director: Scott Graham | Stars: Ruth Negga, Douglas Henshall, Tom Brooke, Michelle Duncan
Votes: 355
19. Galapagos (2006)
180 min | Documentary
The history of these beautiful Islands from their creation as uprising lava to their being studied by Darwin to their modern day inhabitants.
Stars: Tilda Swinton, Richard Wollocombe, Tom Hiddleston, Stacy Keach
Votes: 1,436
20. Java Heat (2013)
R | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A Muslim detective teams with an American posing as a graduate student to find the man behind a series of deadly terrorist bombings in Indonesia.
Director: Conor Allyn | Stars: Kellan Lutz, Verdi Solaiman, Mickey Rourke, Ario Bayu
Votes: 4,934
21. Island of Lemurs: Madagascar (2014)
G | 39 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure
A documentary that follows Dr. Patricia C. Wright's mission to help lemurs, the highly evolved creatures who arrived on Madagascar millions of years ago as castaways but are now highly endangered.
Director: David Douglas | Stars: Patricia Wright, Morgan Freeman, Hantanirina Rasamimanana
Votes: 1,016 | Gross: $11.26M
22. A Cape Cod Christmas (2021 TV Movie)
89 min | Drama, Romance
When a children's author hosts one last Christmas dinner with her disagreeable siblings before they sell the family house, she reunites with her childhood sweetheart who helps her find a way to keep the home she loves so dearly.
Director: John Stimpson | Stars: Katie Leclerc, Brent Bailey, Cindy Lentol, Chris Owen
Votes: 432
23. Bornholmer Straße (2014 TV Movie)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
A comic look at the fall of the Berlin Wall in November of 1989, told from the point of view of the German border guards at the checkpoint where it all started.
Director: Christian Schwochow | Stars: Charly Hübner, Milan Peschel, Ulrich Matthes, Rainer Bock
Votes: 869
24. The Women of Pitcairn Island (1956)
Approved | 72 min | Adventure, Drama
Eighteen years have passed since the arrival of the Bounty mutineers on Pitcairn Island. The last of these mutineers has just died and the island is now populated solely by their widows and... See full summary »
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: James Craig, Lynn Bari, John Smith, Arleen Whelan
Votes: 54
25. Hierro (2009)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After her son goes missing, a broken mother returns months later to the island of El Hierro to identify a body. She finds out her son is not the only one missing.
Director: Gabe Ibáñez | Stars: Elena Anaya, Bea Segura, Mar Sodupe, Andrés Herrera
Votes: 3,398
26. Round Ireland with a Fridge (2010)
89 min | Comedy, Drama
After years of performing the same comedy sketch at performances, Tony Hawks decides to find inspiration for his scripts by traveling around Ireland with a portable fridge.
Director: Ed Bye | Stars: Tony Hawks, Valerie O'Connor, Ed Byrne, Sean Hughes
Votes: 490
27. Cuba Libre (1996 TV Movie)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Tom steals Tina's love and money, and five years later they meet again by chance. Both wanting to get back what was taken from them, they dream of traveling to Cuba. In the end, however, they only manage to get as far as the Belgian coast.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Richy Müller, Catherine Flemming, Wolfram Berger, Mark Schlichter
Votes: 112
28. Tôkyô-jima (2010)
129 min | Drama
Men and one woman have drifted to an uninhabited island. The only woman will try to survive by taking advantage of her own sexual attractiveness.
Director: Makoto Shinozaki | Stars: Tae Kimura, Yôsuke Kubozuka, Ryôhei Abe, Tasuku Emoto
Votes: 56
29. Strawberry Shortcake: Adventures on Ice Cream Island (2004 Video)
TV-G | 64 min | Animation
When Honey Pie Pony meets other horses on Ice Cream Island, she thinks she should move there. But once she realizes how much her human pals need her back home, she reconsiders. Later Honey ... See full summary »
Stars: Sarah Heinke, DeJare Barfield, Nils Haaland, Anna Jordan
Votes: 61
30. With the Marines at Tarawa (1944)
Approved | 18 min | Documentary, Short, War
Documentary short film depicting the harrowing battle between the U.S. Marines and the Japanese for control of the Pacific island of Tarawa.
Directors: Richard Brooks, Louis Hayward | Stars: Alexander Bonnyman Jr., John Borich, Merritt A. Edson, H.W. Hill
Votes: 305
31. The Flatey Enigma (2018)
211 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Set in 1971, the series follows Johanna, a professor of Nordic Studies, accused of murder. To prove her innocence, she has to solve a riddle in a medieval manuscript about Norse kings, the ... See full summary »
Stars: Lára Jóhanna Jónsdóttir, Stefán Hallur Stefánsson, Hilmir Jensson, Sigurður Sigurjónsson
Votes: 371
32. Through Greenland - With Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (2019)
Documentary
Through Greenland is a visually spectacular program series with Danish Game of Thrones super star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau on an adventurous expedition through Greenland.
Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Nukâka, Jo Scheuer, Cecilie Frydenlund
Votes: 43
33. Clipperton: The Island Time Forgot (1981)
59 min | Documentary
Today, the only inhabitants of this environmentally inhospitable Pacific island are birds and crabs. Yet over 80 years ago, Clipperton hosted other visitors: a demented rapist and a ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Ertaud | Star: Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Votes: 23
34. Liberté-Oléron (2001)
107 min | Comedy
During the summer vacation of a french family, the father goes through a mid-life crisis. To cope with it, he ends up buying a boat, which turns out to be a not-so-good idea.
Director: Bruno Podalydès | Stars: Denis Podalydès, Guilaine Londez, Patrick Pineau, Arnaud Jalbert
Votes: 610
35. Mein Leben für Irland (1941)
90 min | Drama
"My Life for Ireland" is a Nazi-made anti-British propaganda film about a group of Dublin schoolboys who unwittingly become pawns of the British and seek redemption by avenging their fallen IRA fathers in the Irish War of Independence.
Director: Max W. Kimmich | Stars: Anna Dammann, René Deltgen, Paul Wegener, Werner Hinz
Votes: 79
36. Ein Bayer auf Rügen (1993–1997)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Stars: Wolfgang Fierek, Ottfried Fischer, Luise Deschauer, Veronika Fitz
Votes: 37
37. To the Shores of Iwo Jima (1945)
PG | 20 min | Documentary, Short, War
Documentary short film depicting the American assault on the Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima and the massive battle that raged on that key island in the Allied advance on Japan.
Stars: Harlon Block, John H. Bradley, Rene A. Gagnon, Ira H. Hayes
Votes: 171
38. Nuova Guinea, l'isola dei cannibali (1974)
100 min | Documentary, Horror
Director: Akira Ide | Stars: Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II
Votes: 66
39. Cuba baila (1961)
87 min | Drama, Musical
Director: Julio García Espinosa | Stars: Tete Blanco, Vivian Gude, Alfredo Perojo, Raquel Revuelta
Votes: 15
40. Monte Cristo (1929)
223 min | Adventure
After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to get his revenge on them
Director: Henri Fescourt | Stars: Jean Angelo, Lil Dagover, Gaston Modot, Jean Toulout
Votes: 157
41. L'homme de la Jamaïque (1950)
120 min | Adventure
Jacques Mervel, also known as "L'Homme de la Jamaïque" makes use of his talents as a gun runner in Tangiers, Morocco. After triumphing over a rival gang, he decides to quit the job and to ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice de Canonge | Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Véra Norman, Louis Seigner, Georges Tabet
Votes: 22
42. The Jew of Malta (2012)
Drama
Barabas' wealth and land are seized and his home turned into a nunnery. He spends the rest of the movie plotting his revenge
Director: Douglas Morse | Stars: Barzin Akhavan, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ian Antal, Ben Beckley
Votes: 10
43. The Fight for Greenland (2020)
95 min | Documentary
The film follows four strong-willed and dynamic young Greenlanders that deeply disagree on which direction their country should follow, but all are fighting for a better Greenland.
Director: Kenneth Sorento | Stars: Ane Marie Andersen, Dorthe Andersen, Erneeraq Andersen, Kaaleeraq Andersen
Votes: 80
44. Unter den Sternen von Capri (1953)
95 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Otto Linnekogel | Stars: Hanna Rucker, Helmuth Schneider, Hans Leibelt, Wera Frydtberg
45. Sylter Geschichten (1993–1996)
45 min | Drama
Sylt stories.
Stars: Claus Wilcke, Andreas Maria Schwaiger, Gabriele Metzger, Eva Renzi
Votes: 17
46. Die Kuba-Krise 1962 (1969 TV Movie)
91 min | Drama
Director: Rudolf Nussgruber | Stars: Helmut Förnbacher, Werner Kreindl, Hanns Ernst Jäger, Herbert Tiede
Votes: 20
47. Leros, i eleftheria einai therapeftiki (2003)
29 min | Documentary, Short
A travelogue through the space and time that encompass the Leros State Psychiatric Hospital. A journey through the 45 years of its operation. A journey into the souls of both the patients and the people who worked in this tortured place.
Director: Andreas Loukakos | Stars: P. Fatseas, K. Harinou, D. Kostopoulos, G. Loukas
Votes: 8
48. Mörder auf Amrum (2009 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
Director: Markus Imboden | Stars: Hinnerk Schönemann, Irina Potapenko, Barbara Rudnik, Thomas Thieme
Votes: 182
49. Linen for Ireland (1939)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda film that "shows" how Jewish textile company owners are sabotaging the German linen industry by buying linen from Ireland instead of having it produced in "the Fatherland".
Director: Heinz Helbig | Stars: Otto Treßler, Irene von Meyendorff, Friedl Haerlin, Oskar Sima
Votes: 43
50. Okinawa: Urizun no ame (2015)
148 min | Documentary, History, War
'Okinawa: The Afterburn' is the first documentary film to provide a comprehensive picture of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa and the ensuing 70-year occupation of the island by the U.S. military.
Director: John Junkerman
Votes: 237