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poster
83
7.6
/231181/
75
/7296/
73
/4515/
3.8
/287941/
91
/116/
85
/4861/
90
/10/
cc age 8+

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
poster
80
7.7
/179419/
75
/5040/
74
/2654/
3.8
/165652/
89
/53/
90
/3812/
87
/10/
cc age 17+

Dirty Harry (1971)
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath.
poster
Kanopy
79
7.3
/24418/
71
/434/
68
/327/
3.7
/13452/
91
/56/
82
/330/
86
/28/

Nobody's Fool (1994)
A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for his nemesis and flirting with his nemesis' young wife. As his estranged son returns, he faces new family responsibilities, while a banker plots to evict him from his home.
poster
Kanopy
79
7.3
/112761/
72
/2506/
70
/1819/
3.7
/94108/
94
/48/
80
/1512/
76
/14/
cc age 15+

Witness (1985)
While protecting an Amish boy – the sole witness to a brutal murder – and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when his own life comes under threat.
poster
MGM Plus
78
7.3
/26529/
71
/473/
69
/361/
3.9
/24267/
90
/50/
82
/612/
76
/16/

Reds (1981)
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.
poster
The CW
77
7.5
/56462/
72
/1049/
73
/911/
3.6
/54132/
74
/43/
85
/1220/
68
/9/
cc age 16+

Sophie's Choice (1982)
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
poster
75
7.2
/84347/
72
/3327/
70
/1487/
3.8
/91021/
71
/58/
73
/1299/
66
/30/

Strange Days (1995)
In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the memories of the murder of a prostitute. With the help of bodyguard Mace, he starts to investigate and is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of murder, blackmail and intrigue.
poster
Hoopla
75
7.1
/24345/
71
/487/
69
/341/
3.7
/16964/
77
/39/
79
/366/
65
/10/
cc age 15+

Silkwood (1983)
Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a lethal dose of radiation, Karen faces the blank walls of corporate indifference and denial. As her illness increases, her protest grows louder and she becomes an obvious danger to the powers that be.
poster
70
7.3
/10268/
71
/183/
70
/176/
3.6
/6562/
68
/25/
74
/171/

The Front (1976)
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
poster
69
6.9
/16393/
70
/338/
66
/241/
3.4
/10179/
82
/28/
64
/172/
64
/12/

Absence of Malice (1981)
Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it involves an innocent party. When he tells Carter the truth and the newspaper runs it, tragedy follows, forcing Carter to face up to the responsibilities of her job when she is confronted by Gallagher.
poster
The Roku Channel
67
6.5
/14782/
69
/424/
65
/277/
3.1
/7390/
66
/32/
65
/339/
62
/19/

Chances Are (1989)
Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together. It's not until Alex is invited to Louie's home that he begins to remember his former life, wife and best friend. Of course, there's also the problem that he's attracted to Louie's/his own daughter.
poster
fuboTV
66
6.7
/306941/
68
/10665/
63
/4452/
3.3
/362281/
78
/203/
60
/10391/
64
/35/
cc age 14+

The Other Guys (2010)
Unlike their heroic counterparts on the force, desk-bound NYPD detectives Gamble and Hoitz garner no headlines as they work day to day. When a seemingly minor case turns out to be a big deal, the two cops get the opportunity to finally prove to their comrades that they have the right stuff.
poster
65
6.1
/6481/
60
/170/
61
/138/
3.1
/2157/
49
/81/
62
/10/

Iceman (1984)
A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Dr. Stanley Shephard wants to befriend the Iceman and learn about the man's past while Dr. Diane Brady and her surgical team want to discover the secret that will allow man to live in a frozen state.
poster
63
6.9
/21393/
70
/557/
66
/350/
3.7
/49374/
55
/93/
65
/599/
54
/9/
cc age 13+

The Stepford Wives (1975)
Joanna Eberhart comes to the town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
poster
Kanopy
62
6.5
/133344/
69
/4982/
63
/1883/
3.0
/53509/
58
/178/
49
/1985/
45
/35/
cc age 14+

The Sum of All Fears (2002)
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.
poster
62
6.9
/130146/
71
/3910/
68
/2131/
3.3
/89812/
54
/130/
68
/3714/
42
/28/
cc age 13+

The Family Man (2000)
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his career, and to the horrifying discovery that his former life no longer exists. As he stumbles through this alternate suburban universe, Jack finds himself at a crossroad where he must choose between his high-power career and the woman he loves.
poster
Disney Plus
62
6.6
/568986/
67
/19776/
64
/10180/
2.7
/525343/
56
/235/
61
/47594/
58
/38/
cc age 13+

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organised under Xavier's former ally, Magneto.
poster
Hoopla
60
6.3
/15207/
68
/673/
64
/350/
3.1
/6197/
50
/18/
55
/203/
cc age 11+

D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot with superhuman reflexes and mental abilities. Even his name has a hidden meaning -- it's actually an acronym for Data Analyzing Robot Youth Life-form. When the organization that created him deems the "super soldier" experiment a failure and schedules Daryl to be disassembled, it is up to a few rogue scientists to help him escape.
poster
MGM Plus
62
60
6.7
/18982/
66
/290/
67
/386/
3.3
/13871/
54
/26/
55
/279/

Shadows and Fog (1991)
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
poster
58
6.4
/1091/
53
/11/
53
/16/
3.2
/531/
80
/5/
45
/4/

Hide in Plain Sight (1980)
True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Program.
poster
Plex
57
6.5
/30618/
67
/694/
63
/500/
3.2
/17791/
54
/28/
46
/287/
52
/17/

Malice (1993)
A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" doctor.
poster
Hulu
57
6.6
/76035/
69
/2880/
65
/948/
3.4
/84219/
27
/30/
65
/5963/
46
/18/
cc age 11+

The Mighty Ducks (1992)
After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids hockey team for his community service. Gordon has experience on the ice, but isn't eager to return to hockey, a point hit home by his tense dealings with his own former coach, Jack Reilly. The reluctant Gordon eventually grows to appreciate his team, which includes promising young Charlie Conway, and leads them to take on Reilly's tough players.
poster
MGM Plus
57
6.0
/84803/
65
/3039/
60
/1398/
2.9
/42433/
67
/115/
40
/1309/
50
/33/
cc age 16+

Shaft (2000)
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.
poster
Kanopy
57
56
6.4
/21423/
63
/459/
61
/268/
3.0
/4244/
64
/141/
26
/4224/
61
/35/
cc age 17+

Stop-Loss (2008)
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.
poster
55
6.9
/129049/
72
/4661/
73
/3382/
3.5
/120063/
22
/69/
73
/6510/
26
/21/
cc age 13+

Patch Adams (1998)
The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own career.
poster
Kanopy
56
51
6.0
/7575/
63
/171/
57
/158/
2.9
/8363/
67
/9/
45
/57/
43
/10/

Still of the Night (1982)
When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigating officer but refuses to give up any information. He's then visited by the patient's mistress, Brooke Reynolds, whom he quickly falls for despite her being a likely murder suspect. As the police pressure on him intensifies, Rice decides to attempt solving the case on his own and soon discovers that someone is trying to kill him as well.
poster
Hoopla
55
50
5.9
/5604/
63
/147/
59
/111/
2.9
/2403/
62
/26/
37
/52/
53
/11/

Target (1985)
A Texan with a secret past searches Europe with his son after the KGB kidnaps his wife.
poster
48
5.9
/87385/
61
/2771/
60
/1638/
2.7
/48261/
20
/163/
40
/9354/
45
/31/
cc age 14+

The Invasion (2007)
Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that transforms anyone who comes into contact with it into unfeeling drones while they sleep. Carol realizes her son holds the key to stopping the spread of the plague and she races to find him before it is too late.
poster
48
6.0
/17067/
63
/387/
59
/266/
2.8
/4859/
13
/23/
39
/194/
45
/18/

The Chamber (1996)
Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.
poster
Kanopy
47
5.7
/4412/
59
/71/
55
/79/
2.9
/2087/
14
/14/
53
/132/

Moonlight and Valentino (1995)
A young widow still grieving over the death of her husband finds herself being comforted by a local housepainter.
poster
52
45
6.2
/4082/
56
/93/
54
/86/
2.9
/3319/
44
/9/
41
/67/

Don't Drink the Water (1994)
Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international spying incident when Walter photographs a sunset in a sensitive region. In order to stay out of jail, the Hollanders take refuge in the American Embassy, which is temporarily being run by the absent Ambassador's diplomatically incompetent son, Axel.
poster
50
41
5.6
/3441/
61
/118/
53
/63/
2.8
/1781/
45
/11/
31
/53/

Hanky Panky (1982)
Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect and goes on the run.
poster
38
4.7
/12064/
55
/188/
52
/195/
2.3
/3859/
19
/93/
35
/333/
25
/31/
cc age 13+

The Next Best Thing (2000)
A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert's little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.
poster
52
31
5.4
/1607/
59
/20/
51
/27/
2.9
/756/
73
/11/
37
/15/
36
/8/

Rollover (1981)
The wife of a murdered petrochemical company chairman and a banker investigating the liquidity of his new bank stumble upon an international financial scheme that could lead to global economic collapse.
poster
MGM Plus
54
30
5.9
/2059/
57
/30/
55
/34/
3.0
/1314/
39
/19/

The Rosary Murders (1987)
A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesses to him.
poster
HBO Max
53
28
5.7
/1960/
57
/58/
56
/41/
2.9
/1023/
37
/9/

The Enemy Within (1994)
A officer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a planned military coup of the U.S. government and has only one week to prevent the takeover.
poster
52
26
6.2
/2486/
67
/51/
61
/37/
3.2
/414/
11
/9/
49
/15/

The Proposition (1998)
Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and Eleanor Barret. Meanwhile Eleanor and Arthur desperately want to have a child, but Arthur is sterile, so they hire Harvard law student Roger Martin to impregnate Eleanor, but unfortunately Roger falls in love with her.
poster
Peacock Premium
60
25
5.9
/1348/
67
/74/
65
/49/
3.0
/460/
52
/5/

Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989)
The Bionic Woman and the Six-Million-Dollar Man reunite--with a few younger bionic assistants--and try to catch a bionic spy.
poster
fuboTV
51
23
6.2
/580/
61
/10/
56
/17/
18
/11/
64
/19/
46
/6/

The Elephant King (2006)
The story of two brothers who lead totally different lives. Jake Hunt enjoys life to the fullest in Thailand, while his shy brother Oliver deals with his own depressions back home in the USA. Their dominant mother wants Jake back home and for this reason, Oliver is sent to Thailand to retrieve his brother. Once there, Oliver finds himself in Jake's bizarre life and falls in love with a beautiful girl, Lek. However, it is not a coincidence that she and Oliver have met
poster
54
23
6.6
/859/
58
/15/
58
/26/
3.5
/1456/
20
/1/

Man on a Swing (1974)
When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chief Lee Tucker can find no clues pointing to her killer. Flamboyant self-proclaimed psychic Franklin Wills offers his help to the skeptical policeman, and, when his supposed visions about the case begin to reveal clues and information that only the killer could possibly have known, he becomes a suspect himself.
poster
62
21
6.5
/621/
76
/8/
55
/10/
55

Independence Day (1983)
Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a waitress in her father's diner, yet she can't help but feel unfulfilled by a life of pouring coffee and grilling hamburgers. Mary Ann's real passion is photography, but pursuing her dream of becoming a photographer means leaving Mercury behind.
poster
65
21
7.0
/1643/
71
/17/
60
/23/
3.3
/458/
62
/6/

Citizen Cohn (1992)
As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves.
poster
48
19
5.3
/1567/
48
/17/
56
/24/
3.0
/502/
24
/22/

Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989)
This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that Hortense loves him and that he would rather live than die. In another story, Harriet's parrot is killed, and she has problems dealing with her loss. Then, there is a gambler, "Regret", who has bloodhounds on his trail when he becomes a murder suspect. Finally, "The Brain" is bleeding profusely, and his friends search for a way to save his life through a blood transfusion.
poster
Hoopla
40
16
4.7
/1137/
48
/21/
46
/27/
3.0
/376/
22
/9/
22
/9/

Oliver's Story (1978)
Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hours don't ease his pain, especially when he finds that his leftist views conflict with those of the senior partners at the firm. Eventually, Oliver's inconsolable grief begins to alienate those around him, until he finds new love with Marcie Bonwit, the wealthy and beautiful heiress to the Bonwit Teller fortune. Despite his affection for her, Oliver finds it difficult to leave the memory of Jenny behind, which causes major problems in their relationship.
poster
45
15
5.6
/1205/
50
/29/
51
/21/
2.8
/653/
10
/3/

Mistrial (1996)
When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, the judge and the jury hostage...and begins a trial of his own.
poster
65
14
7.2
/319/
67
/29/
58
/17/
3.4
/530/
62
/3/

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change (2000)
Following World War I, Indy - now fluent in several languages - works as a translator at the controversial Paris Peace Conference, where he once more meets Lawrence of Arabia, and encounters the Arab Prince Faisal and a young Ho Chi Minh. Disillusioned by the hard and cynical realpolitik of international deal-making, he returns home to Princeton, New Jersey after a three-year absence, where he finds his father as cold and distant as ever, and discovers a detrimental change in his boyhood friend, Paul Robeson, caused by bigotry.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
62
14
6.7
/602/
60
/13/
51
/9/
70
/14/

Hidden in America (1996)
Story of a man whose pride in being the head of his family won't let him accept help from his sick daughters doctor. He has to prove to his kids that even with the death of his wife and the loss of his job that they can and will survive. After hitting brick wall after brick wall comes a glimmer of hope.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
44
13
4.2
/807/
48
/21/
43
/20/
2.9
/630/
33
/8/

Dracula's Widow (1988)
Dracula's wife, Vanessa, comes back to life and attacks Raymond who has a waxworks museum, where he displays notorious monsters and murderers.


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