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Movies by Lists - The 100 Most Controversial Movies of All Time (103 [103])
TitleYearDirectorGenreRatingRuntimeAdded
9 SongsIn London, intense sexual encounters take place between an American college student, named Lisa, and an English scientist, named Matt, between attending rock concerts.2004Michael WinterbottomDrama, Music, Romance4.8 (22.5K votes)7120220414
AladdinA kindhearted street urchin and a power-hungry Grand Vizier vie for a magic lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true.1992Ron Clements, John MuskerAnimation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance8.0 (393.7K votes)9020211228
All Quiet on the Western FrontA German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.1930Lewis MilestoneDrama, War8.1 (60.2K votes)15220211228
AntichristA grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.2009Lars von Trier (*)Drama, Horror, Thriller6.5 (126.7K votes)220220912
Baby DollAn immature child bride holds her anxious husband at bay while flirting with an amorous Sicilian farmer.1956Elia Kazan (*)Comedy, Drama7.3 (7.5K votes)11420211228
Baise MoiTwo young women, marginalised by society, go on a destructive tour of sex and violence. Breaking norms and killing men - and shattering the complacency of polite cinema audiences.2000Virginie Despentes, CoralieCrime, Drama, Thriller4.5 (17.5K votes)7720211228
Bandit QueenThe story of the bandit queen Phoolan Devi who was sent to prison in 1983 and got free in 1994.1994Shekhar KapurBiography, Crime, Drama7.6 (4.8K votes)11920211228
Basic InstinctA violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.1992Paul Verhoeven (*)Drama, Mystery, Thriller7.0 (192.7K votes)12720211228
Birth of a Nation, TheThe Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux K1915D.W. Griffith (*)Drama, History, War6.2 (24.2K votes)19520211228
Bloodsucking FreaksSardu, master of the Theatre of the Macabre, and his assistant Ralphus run a show in which, under the guise of 'magic', they torture and murder people in front of their audience. But what the spectators see as a trick is actually rea1976Joel M. ReedComedy, Horror4.8 (5.8K votes)8420211228
Blue VelvetThe discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.1986David Lynch (*)Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller7.7 (192.4K votes)12020211228
Bonnie and ClydeBored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.1967Arthur Penn (*)Action, Biography, Crime, Drama7.8 (109.8K votes)11120211228
Boxing HelenaA surgeon becomes obsessed with the seductive woman he once was in an affair with. Refusing to accept that she has moved on, he amputates her limbs and holds her captive in his mansion.1993Jennifer LynchDrama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller4.7 (12K votes)10720211228
Brokeback MountainEnnis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.2005Ang Lee (*)Drama, Romance7.7 (344.5K votes)13420211228
Brown Bunny, TheProfessional motorcycle racer Bud Clay heads from New Hampshire to California to race again. Along the way he meets various needy women who provide him with the cure to his own loneliness, but only a certain woman from his past will 2003Vincent GalloDrama5.0 (15.2K votes)9320211228
CaligulaA dramatization of the ascent to Caesar and subsequent reign of Caligula, one of the most notorious leaders of ancient Rome. We see his ambition, his scheming, his perversion and decadence, his brutality and his lunacy.1979Tinto Brass (*)Drama, History5.3 (35.2K votes)15620211228
Cannibal HolocaustDuring a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.1980Ruggero DeodatoAdventure, Horror5.8 (55.5K votes)9520220806
Carnal KnowledgeChronicling the lifelong sexual development of two men who meet and become friends in college.1971Mike Nichols (*)Drama7.0 (12.7K votes)9820220423
Citizen KaneFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; 'Rosebud'.1941Orson Welles (*)Drama, Mystery8.3 (429.4K votes)11920211228
Clockwork Orange, AIn the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.1971Stanley Kubrick (*)Crime, Sci-Fi8.3 (799.7K votes)13620211228
Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, TheAt Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence and gluttony. But when the cook, a thief, his wife and her lover all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and revenge.1989Peter Greenaway (*)Crime, Drama7.6 (37.2K votes)12420211228
CrashAfter getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life wit1996David Cronenberg (*)Drama6.4 (57.5K votes)10020211228
Crime of Padre Amaro, The [El crimen del padre Amaro]Politics and sexual passions threaten to corrupt a young, newly-ordained priest in a small Mexican town.2002Carlos CarreraDrama, Romance6.7 (14.4K votes)11820240427
CruisingA police detective goes undercover in the underground S&M gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is preying on gay men.1980William Friedkin (*)Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller6.5 (22.7K votes)10220211228
Da Vinci Code,, TheA murder inside the Louvre, and clues in Da Vinci paintings, lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years, which could shake the foundations of Christianity.2006Ron HowardMystery, Thriller6.6 (421.2K votes)14920211228
Deep ThroatA woman with an unusual birth defect comes to a doctor who has an unorthodox solution to make the best of her situation.1972Gerard DamianoAdult, Comedy5.1 (6.7K votes)6120211228
Deer Hunter, TheAn in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.1978Michael Cimino (*)Drama, War8.1 (329.7K votes)18320211228
Devils, TheIn 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually-repressed nun.1971Ken Russell (*)Biography, Drama, History7.8 (15.5K votes)11120211228
Dirty HarryWhen a madman calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces the city, tough-as-nails San Francisco Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath.1971Don Siegel, Clint EastwoodAction, Crime, Thriller7.7 (151.8K votes)10220211228
Do the Right ThingOn the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.1989Spike Lee (*)Comedy, Drama8.0 (98.7K votes)12020211228
DogmaAn abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loop-hole and reenter Heaven.1999Kevin Smith (*)Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy7.3 (214.3K votes)13020211228
Dreamers, TheA young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.2003Bernardo Bertolucci (*)Drama, Romance7.2 (118K votes)11520211228
EcstasyEva has just gotten married to an older gentleman. She leaves him and one day, she meets a young man and they fall in love. Fate brings the husband together with the young lover that has taken Eva from him.1933Gustav MachatýDrama, Romance6.7 (2.4K votes)8220211228
Evil Dead, TheFive friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.1981Sam Raimi (*)Horror7.5 (200.1K votes)8520211228
Exorcist, TheWhen a 12-year-old girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her.1973William Friedkin (*)Horror8.0 (384.5K votes)12220211228
Faces of DeathA collection of death scenes, ranging from TV material to homemade super 8 movies.1978John Alan SchwartzDocumentary, Horror4.2 (7.2K votes)10520220806
Fahrenheit 9-11Michael Moore's view on what happened to the United States after September 11 and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.2004Michael MooreDocumentary, Drama, War7.5 (128.7K votes)12220211228
FreaksA circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.1932Tod Browning (*)Drama, Horror7.9 (45.1K votes)6420211228
Hail MaryA college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.1985Jean-Luc Godard (*)Drama6.5 (3.3K votes)7220211228
Hail, Mary [Je vous salue, Marie]A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.1985Jean-Luc Godard (*)Drama6.5 (3.3K votes)7220211228
Hard CandyHayley's a smart, charming teenage girl. Jeff's a handsome, smooth fashion photographer. An Internet chat, a coffee shop meet-up, an impromptu fashion shoot back at Jeff's place. Jeff thinks it's his lucky night. He's in for a surpri2005David SladeDrama, Thriller7.1 (158.9K votes)10420211228
Heaven's GateDuring the Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, a sheriff born into wealth does his best to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests.1980Michael Cimino (*)Adventure, Drama, Western6.8 (14.8K votes)21920211228
Henry & JuneAnaïs Nin meets the American writer, Henry Miller, in Paris in 1931. She keeps a diary of her sexual awakening which includes Henry and his wife, June.1990Philip Kaufman (*)Biography, Drama6.3 (13.1K votes)13620211228
Henry, Portrait of a Serial KillerArriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.1986John McNaughton (*)Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller7.0 (35K votes)8320211228
HounddogA drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.2007Deborah KampmeierDrama, Music6.3 (6.2K votes)10220211228
Human Centipede, TheA mad scientist kidnaps and mutilates a trio of tourists in order to reassemble them into a human centipede, created by stitching their mouths to each others' rectums.2009Tom SixHorror4.4 (77.2K votes)9220211228
I am Curious BlueTold in a quasi-documentary style, this companion piece to Jag är nyfiken - en film i blått (1968) deals with topics such as class society, non-violent resistance, sex, relationships, and tourism to Francoist Spain.1967Vilgot Sjöman (*)Drama6.1 (3.9K votes)12120211228
I Am Curious YellowTold in a quasi-documentary style, this companion piece to Jag är nyfiken - en film i blått (1968) deals with topics such as class society, non-violent resistance, sex, relationships, and tourism to Francoist Spain.1967Vilgot Sjöman (*)Drama6.1 (3.9K votes)12120211228
I Spit on Your GraveAn aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.1978Meir ZarchiHorror, Thriller5.7 (27.9K votes)10120211228
Ilsa She Wolf Of The SSIlsa is an evil Nazi warden at a death camp that conducts "medical experiments." Ilsa's goal is to prove women can withstand more pain and suffering than men, and therefore should be allowed to fight on the front lines.1975Don EdmondsDrama, Horror, Thriller, War5.1 (7.5K votes)9620211228
In the Realm of the Senses [Nagisa Oshima]A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.1976Nagisa ÔshimaDrama, Romance6.6 (20.1K votes)10920211228
IrreversibleEvents over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass.2002Gaspar Noé (*)Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller7.4 (129.3K votes)9720211228
JFKNew Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.1991Oliver Stone (*)Drama, History, Thriller8.0 (151.4K votes)18920211228
Ken ParkKen Park is about several Californian skateboarders' lives and relationships with and without their parents.2002Larry Clark, Edward LachmanDrama5.9 (29.5K votes)9320211228
KidsA day in the life of a group of teens as they travel around New York City skating, drinking, smoking and deflowering virgins.1995Larry ClarkDrama7.1 (76.7K votes)9120211228
KinseyA look at the life of Alfred Kinsey, a pioneer in the area of human sexuality research, whose 1948 publication "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" was one of the first recorded works that saw science address sexual behavior.2004Bill CondonBiography, Drama, Romance7.1 (48.8K votes)11820211228
Kiss, TheIn a medium close-up shot of the first kiss ever recorded on screen, two fervent lovers cuddle and talk passionately at hair's breadth, just before the love-smitten gentleman decides to give his chosen one an innocent peck.1896William HeiseShort, Romance5.8 (3.7K votes)120240427
Last House on The Left, TheTwo 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.1972Wes Craven (*)Crime, Horror, Thriller6.0 (36.5K votes)8420211228
Last Picture Show, TheIn 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.1971Peter Bogdanovich (*)Drama, Romance8.0 (46.6K votes)11820211228
Last Tango in ParisA young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.1972Bernardo Bertolucci (*)Drama, Romance7.0 (52.7K votes)12920211228
Last Temptation of Christ, TheThe life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.1988Martin Scorsese (*)Drama7.5 (55.8K votes)16420211228
Last Temptation, The [O teleftaios peirasmos]The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.1988Martin Scorsese (*)Drama7.5 (55.6K votes)16420211228
Life of BrianBorn on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.1979Terry Jones (*)Comedy8.1 (388.1K votes)9420211228
LolitaAn English professor falls for a minor, and has to face the consequences of his actions.1997Adrian Lyne (*)Drama, Romance6.9 (56.6K votes)13720211228
LolitaA middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a fourteen-year-old nymphet.1962Stanley Kubrick (*)Crime, Drama, Romance7.5 (98.6K votes)15320211228
Men Behind the Sun - Camp 731 [Hei tai yang 731]Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where they're horribly tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons.1988Tun-Fei MouDrama, History, Horror, War6.1 (6.4K votes)10520211228
Message, TheThis epic historical drama chronicles the life and times of Prophet Muhammad and serves as an introduction to early Islamic history.1976Moustapha AkkadBiography, Drama, History, War8.2 (46.3K votes)17720211228
Midnight CowboyA naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.1969John Schlesinger (*)Drama7.8 (108.2K votes)11320211228
Mondo Cane [A Dog's Life]A ""shockumentary"" consisting of a collection of mostly real archive footage displaying mankind at its most depraved and perverse, displaying bizarre rites, cruel behavior and bestial violence.1962Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco ProsperiDocumentary, Horror6.2 (4.3K votes)10820231017
Moon is Blue, TheTwo aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections.1953Otto Preminger (*)Comedy, Romance6.7 (2.3K votes)9920211228
Natural Born KillersTwo victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.1994Oliver Stone (*)Action, Crime, Drama7.3 (228.2K votes)11820211228
NekromantikA street sweeper who cleans up after grisly accidents brings home a full corpse for him and his wife to enjoy sexually, but is dismayed to see that his wife prefers the corpse over him.1987Jörg ButtgereitHorror5.0 (9.2K votes)7120211228
Outlaw, TheWestern legends Pat Garrett, Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid are played against each other over the law and the attentions of vivacious country vixen Rio McDonald.1943Howard Hughes, Howard HawksWestern5.5 (4.4K votes)11620211228
Passion of the Christ, TheDepicts the final twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem.2004Mel Gibson (*)Drama7.2 (225K votes)12720211228
Peeping TomA young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.1960Michael Powell (*)Drama, Horror, Thriller7.7 (34.2K votes)10120211228
Pink FlamingosNotorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".1972John Waters (*)Comedy, Crime6.1 (23.9K votes)9320211228
Pretty BabyA teenage girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.1978Louis Malle (*)Drama6.6 (10.6K votes)11020211228
PsychoA Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.1960Alfred Hitchcock (*)Horror, Mystery, Thriller8.5 (643.8K votes)10920211228
Real Young Girl, A [Une vraie jeune fille]Reluctantly, a sulky adolescent returns to her parents' house for yet another boring summer vacation, dabbling in desire and the art of desirability, eventually mixing reality with vision, caged fantasies with the fierce female sexua1976Catherine BreillatDrama5.3 (3.8K votes)8920211228
Requiem for a DreamThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.2000Darren Aronofsky (*)Drama8.3 (809.2K votes)10220211228
RomanceFrustrated by the lack of intimacy in her relationship, a young schoolteacher goes through a series of intimidating and often violent sexual partners.1999Catherine BreillatDrama, Romance5.3 (10.6K votes)8420211228
Rosemary's BabyA young couple trying for a baby move into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, but find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.1968Roman Polanski (*)Drama, Horror8.0 (207.9K votes)13720211228
Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.1975Pier Paolo Pasolini (*)Drama, Horror5.9 (58.1K votes)11720211228
ScarfaceAn ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall.1932Howard Hawks, Richard RossonAction, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller7.7 (27.3K votes)9320211228
September DawnA love story set during a tense encounter between a wagon train of settlers and a renegade Mormon group.2007Christopher CainDrama, History, Romance, Western5.8 (3.1K votes)11120240427
ShortbusA group of New Yorkers caught up in their romantic-sexual milieu converge at an underground salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality.2006John Cameron MitchellComedy, Drama, Romance6.4 (33.2K votes)10120211228
SnuffA so-called ""snuff"" film involving the exploits of a cult leader leading a gang of bikers in a series of supposedly real killings on film.1975Michael Findlay, Horacio Fredriksson, Simon Nuchtern, Roberta FindlayHorror2.8 (2K votes)8020240308
Song of the SouthThe kindly story-teller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear.1946Harve Foster, Wilfred JacksonAnimation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical7.1 (13.6K votes)9420211228
South Park Bigger Longer and UncutWhen Stan Marsh and his friends go see an R-rated movie, they start cursing and their parents think that Canada is to blame.1999Trey ParkerAnimation, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical7.7 (200.5K votes)8120211228
StigmataWhen a young woman becomes afflicted by stigmata, a priest is sent to investigate her case, which may have severe ramifications for his faith and for the Catholic Church itself.1999Rupert WainwrightHorror6.2 (70.1K votes)10320230424
Straw DogsA young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.1971Sam Peckinpah (*)Crime, Drama, Thriller7.5 (59K votes)11320211228
Sweet Sweetbacks Baadasssss SongAfter saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.1971Melvin Van Peebles (*)Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller5.5 (5.1K votes)9720211228
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, TheFive friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.1974Tobe Hooper (*)Horror7.5 (151K votes)8320211228
Thriller--A Cruel PictureA young woman, rendered mute after a childhood sexual assault, is trained to seek violent revenge on those who kidnapped and forced her into prostitution.1973Bo Arne VibeniusCrime, Drama, Thriller6.4 (7.1K votes)10420211228
Titicut FolliesDocumentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside the Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater where people stay trapped in their madness.1967Frederick Wiseman (*)Documentary7.7 (4.5K votes)8420211228
Triumph of the WillThe infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.1935Leni Riefenstahl (*)Documentary, History7.2 (17K votes)11020211228
Twilight Zone - The MovieFour horror and science fiction segments, directed by four famous directors, each of them being a new version of a classic story from Rod Serling's landmark television series.1983Joe Dante, John Landis, George Miller, Steven SpielbergHorror, Sci-Fi6.4 (37.8K votes)10120220806
United 93A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.2006Paul GreengrassAction, Drama, History, Thriller7.6 (104.6K votes)11120211228
VictimA closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.1961Basil DeardenCrime, Drama, Thriller7.7 (5.9K votes)10020211228
ViridianaViridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.1961Luis Buñuel (*)Drama8.1 (23.8K votes)9020211228
Warriors, TheIn the near future, a charismatic leader summons the street gangs of New York City in a bid to take it over. When he is killed, The Warriors are falsely blamed and now must fight their way home while every other gang is hunting them 1979Walter HillAction, Crime, Thriller7.6 (99.9K votes)9220211228
Wild Bunch, TheAn aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.1969Sam Peckinpah (*)Action, Adventure, Western7.9 (82.6K votes)13520211228
Year of the DragonA police detective cracks down on organized crime in Chinatown after the murders of Triad and Mafia leaders.1985Michael Cimino (*)Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller6.9 (15.4K votes)13420211228