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51. Funny About Love (1990)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Romance
NYC cartoonist Duffy meets the bad cappuccino maker, chef Meg, and falls in love. She moves in with him, marries him - but they have problems having a baby.
Director: Leonard Nimoy | Stars: Gene Wilder, Christine Lahti, Mary Stuart Masterson, Robert Prosky
Votes: 1,577 | Gross: $8.14M
52. Full Moon in Blue Water (1988)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
On an island off the gulf coast of Texas, a roadhouse owner is a recluse since the mysterious disappearance of his wife. Into his life comes a woman who tries to help him and save his floundering business as his troubles begin piling up.
Director: Peter Masterson | Stars: Gene Hackman, Teri Garr, Burgess Meredith, Elias Koteas
Votes: 860 | Gross: $0.45M
53. Cross My Heart (1987)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
A man and a woman go out on a "big" third date. He's ashamed to admit he just lost his job, and she's afraid he'll run away if he finds out that she has a kid. Small lies lead to bigger ones and the night gets crazy very soon.
Director: Armyan Bernstein | Stars: Martin Short, Annette O'Toole, Paul Reiser, Joanna Kerns
Votes: 1,376 | Gross: $1.03M
54. Heartland (1979)
PG | 96 min | Drama, Western
A widow with a young daughter travels to a ranch in Wyoming to manage the household of a rancher. After a while the man and woman develop a relationship that leads to a marriage. But life in the harsh place takes its toll.
Director: Richard Pearce | Stars: Rip Torn, Conchata Ferrell, Barry Primus, Megan Folsom
Votes: 1,247
55. Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man (2001 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A disturbing link is made between Jessica Fletcher's (Dame Angela Lansbury's) family history and the death of a slave in the 1860s.
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Phylicia Rashad, Michael Jace, David Ogden Stiers
Votes: 915
56. Cheats (2002)
PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy
A group of friends cheat their way through high school.
Director: Andrew Gurland | Stars: Trevor Fehrman, Matthew Lawrence, Elden Henson, Kathryn Anderson
Votes: 4,542
57. The State of Things (1982)
121 min | Drama
The crew is running out of money to finish their film.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Allen Garfield, Samuel Fuller, Isabelle Weingarten, Rebecca Pauly
Votes: 3,635 | Gross: $6.00M
58. Witness Protection (1999 TV Movie)
R | 105 min | Crime, Drama
A mobster, suspected of cooking the books, is targeted by the mob boss. His family manages to escape. He cuts a deal with FBI for witness protection program. A rough week follows for the family.
Director: Richard Pearce | Stars: Tom Sizemore, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Shawn Hatosy, Skye McCole Bartusiak
Votes: 2,042
59. The Fantasticks (2000)
PG | 86 min | Musical, Romance
A mysterious fair that comes to a small community in the countryside could make real the illusions of two teenagers.
Director: Michael Ritchie | Stars: Joel Grey, Barnard Hughes, Jean Louisa Kelly, Joey McIntyre
Votes: 1,436 | Gross: $0.04M
60. Off the Mark (1987)
R | 75 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A teenaged boy's family once hosted a Russian exchange student in their home for a year. Several years later, as adults, the two find themselves competing against each other in a Triathlon competition.
Director: Bill Berry | Stars: Mark Neely, Terry Farrell, Clarence Gilyard Jr., David D'Arnal
Votes: 164
61. The Pickle (1993)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
Harry Stone (Danny Aiello), a formerly top notch director, has had three disastrous movies in a row. Facing dismissal from the top perch of Hollywood and financial ruin from back taxes, he ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Danny Aiello, Dyan Cannon, Clotilde Courau, Shelley Winters
Votes: 716 | Gross: $0.08M
62. The Final Days (1989 TV Movie)
PG | 150 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Chronicle of Nixon's last months in the White House. A paranoid power-abuser, all too human - a confused, narcissistic individual who cannot fully comprehend how, in less than one year, he lost everything he has worked for in a lifetime.
Director: Richard Pearce | Stars: Lane Smith, Richard Kiley, David Ogden Stiers, Ed Flanders
Votes: 448
63. Scenes from a Mall (1991)
R | 89 min | Comedy
On their 16th anniversary, a married couple's trip to a Beverly Hills mall becomes the stage for personal revelations and deceptions.
Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Bette Midler, Woody Allen, Bill Irwin, Daren Firestone
Votes: 5,234 | Gross: $9.56M
64. Notes from the Underbelly (2007–2008)
30 min | Comedy, Romance
Sensible Andrew and emotive Lauren Stone are happily married. When they decide to embrace the 'joys of parenthood', their lives change and those of her brother Danny and selfish boss (plus ... See full summary »
Stars: Jennifer Westfeldt, Peter Cambor, Michael Weaver, Rachael Harris
Votes: 634
65. Visions (1976–1980)
Drama
Weekly anthology series of original dramas, often with period settings.
Stars: Ellen Travolta, Lesley Woods, Harry Basch, Philip Baker Hall
Votes: 85
66. Tell Me a Riddle (1980)
PG | 90 min | Drama
Touching story of elderly couple David and Eva who go on one last journey across the USA when they discover Eva is dying, ending up with their granddaughter Jeannie in San Francisco.
Director: Lee Grant | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Lila Kedrova, Brooke Adams, Dolores Dorn
Votes: 231
67. Touched (1983)
R | 93 min | Drama, Romance
Two mental patients in an institution fall in love and plan to escape in the search of a normal life.
Director: John Flynn | Stars: Robert Hays, Kathleen Beller, Ned Beatty, Gilbert Lewis
Votes: 141
68. Trumbo (2007)
PG-13 | 96 min | Documentary, Biography
Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals and families of a congressional pursuit of Hollywood Communists after World War II. ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Askin | Stars: Dalton Trumbo, Joan Allen, Brian Dennehy, Michael Douglas
Votes: 1,252 | Gross: $7.85M
69. Key Exchange (1985)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
A young woman wants to get her boyfriend to commit to her, but the most she can get him to do is exchange apartment keys.
Director: Barnet Kellman | Stars: Brooke Adams, Danny Aiello, Seth Allen, Kerry Armstrong
Votes: 282
70. Visions of Light (1992)
92 min | Documentary, History
Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography, illustrating their points with clips from 100 films, from The Birth of a Nation (1915) to Do the Right Thing (1989).
Directors: Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, Stuart Samuels | Stars: Conrad L. Hall, John Bailey, Vilmos Zsigmond, Charles Lang
Votes: 3,337 | Gross: $0.80M
71. Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer (1983 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
This made-for-TV sequel to the 1977 theatrical film "Looking For Mr. Goodbar" follows a New York City detective's quest to find the murderer of a schoolteacher.
Director: Bill Persky | Stars: George Segal, Shelley Hack, Alan North, Barton Heyman
Votes: 130
72. Sessions (1983 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama
High-priced call girl Lee Churchill, is examining her life via therapy "sessions". Her double-life is unknown to her parents, sister and 'straight' man with whom she falls in love.
Director: Richard Pearce | Stars: Veronica Hamel, Jeffrey DeMunn, Jill Eikenberry, David Marshall Grant
Votes: 57
73. Mirrors (1985 TV Movie)
PG | 120 min | Drama
An aspiring Midwestern ballerina (Marguerite Hickey) struggles in New York as the only jobs she can get are as chorus performers. Her personal life is equally dismal.
Director: Harry Winer | Stars: Tim Daly, Shanna Reed, Antony Hamilton, Nicholas Gunn
Votes: 74
74. Laguna Heat (1987 TV Movie)
R | 110 min | Drama, Thriller
After his partner is killed, private detective Tom Shephard returns to his home in Laguna Beach, California, where he finds himself embroiled in a series of nightmarish murders that take him back to the past and some twisted family ties.
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Harry Hamlin, Jason Robards, Rip Torn, Catherine Hicks
Votes: 182
75. Stranger at My Door (1991 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, Thriller
A cop on the run from his mob boss "in-laws" tries to start a new life on a deserted farm with his two children, but it isn't that easy.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Robert Urich, Markie Post, Michael Beck, Ken Swofford
Votes: 124
76. Submission (1969)
73 min | Drama, Horror
A psycho sex-fiend keeps his infantile girlfriend Vicky in submission with candy bars, toys and, yes, hot wax. But when they plan on killing a wealthy lesbian, Vicky discovers she likes a ... See full summary »
Director: Allen Savage | Stars: Jennifer Welles, June Adams, Gary Judin, Sheila Britt
Votes: 91
77. Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1975)
Not Rated | 60 min | Adventure, Drama
How a ship having passed the line was driven by storms to the cold country towards the south pole.
Director: Raul daSilva | Stars: Roland Curram, Geoffrey Hutchings, Michael Johnson, Miriam Margolyes
Votes: 67
78. A Matter of Sex (1984 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Biography, Drama, History
Dramatization of the true story of the so-called Willmar Eight, a group of Minnesota bank workers who braved freezing conditions whilst picketing their branch in a struggle for union rights.
Director: Lee Grant | Stars: Jean Stapleton, Nancy Beatty, J. Winston Carroll, Peter Dvorsky
Votes: 147
79. The Soldier's Tale (1984)
Not Rated | 51 min | Animation
A soldier, returning home from war, chances upon a stranger who offers to buy his violin, the stranger is none other than the devil.
Directors: R.O. Blechman, Christian Blackwood | Stars: Max von Sydow, Dusan Makavejev, Galina Panova, Andre Gregory
Votes: 121
80. The Ghost Dance (1982)
R | 96 min | Horror, Thriller
The spirit of a long-dead warrior possesses the body of an Indian medicine man and turns him into a homicidal maniac.
Director: Peter F. Buffa | Stars: Julie Amato, Victor Mohica, Henry Bal, Frank Salsedo
Votes: 268
81. The Scenic Route (1978)
Not Rated | 76 min | Drama
Spins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who completes the triangle. Told through such fertile sources as grand opera, classical painting, and Victorian melodrama.
Director: Mark Rappaport | Stars: Randy Danson, Marilyn Jones, Kevin Wade, Grant Stewart
Votes: 262
82. What Sex Am I? (1985)
60 min | Documentary
Follows a group of Transgender individuals struggling to make their way in every strata of 1980s America. From finding employment to finding acceptance, the first question the world forces them to ask is always, "What Sex Am I?"
Director: Lee Grant | Stars: Monica Lynn B., Lee Grant, Christine Jorgensen
Votes: 145
83. Cinematographer Style (2006)
86 min | Documentary
110 of the world's top cinematographers discuss the art of how and why films look the way they do.
Director: Jon Fauer | Stars: Remi Adefarasin, Russ T. Alsobrook, Howard A. Anderson III, Howard A. Anderson
Votes: 392
84. Death of an Angel (1985)
PG | 91 min | Drama
Grace, a priest, tracks her missing daughter to a religious community where the strange father Angel is keeping a wooden Jesus figure that sheds actual blood. When the cross is stolen, Grace decides to help out to get her daughter back.
Director: Petru Popescu | Stars: Bonnie Bedelia, Nick Mancuso, Pamela Ludwig, Alex Colon
Votes: 73 | Gross: $0.02M
85. The Other Side of Victory (1976 TV Movie)
58 min | Drama
This film dramatizes the predicaments facing ordinary American soldiers during the Revolutionary War , focusing on the major motivational factors in play as conditions to their decisions to stay and fight.
Director: Bill Jersey | Stars: Josh Clark, David Gale, Mark Margolis, Roberta Maxwell
86. Suburban Shootout (2008– )
Comedy, Crime
U.S. version of the British series, which centers on middle-aged women battling each other behind the facade of suburban bliss.
Stars: Katie Groves, Katherine Dickson, Kelly Preston, Judy Greer
Votes: 28
87. Science of Star Wars (2005– )
Documentary
Stars: Anthony Daniels, Dominic Frisby, Xing Hong Shi, Liam Neeson
Votes: 114
88. Impostors (1979)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy
Three people try to steal an artifact.
Director: Mark Rappaport | Stars: Charles Ludlam, Michael Burg, Peter Evans, Lina Todd
Votes: 46
89. Local Color (1977)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama
Mark Rappaport's off center soap opera parody concerning several characters including a barber, his wife, and a pair of incestuous twins.
Director: Mark Rappaport | Stars: Jane Campbell, Bob Herron, Dolores Kenan, Michael Burg
Votes: 64
90. Suspense (2003 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: David Koepp | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Patrick Barnitt, Stephen Holland
Votes: 149
91. Shut Up and Look (2012)
58 min | Documentary
RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER: SHUT UP AND LOOK is the story of Richard Artschwager, the 88 year old American artist, whose works command hundreds of thousands of dollars, yet fame eludes him. The ... See full summary »
Director: Maryte Kavaliauskas | Star: Richard Artschwager
92. Martha Clarke Light & Dark: a dancer's journal (1980 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 54 min | Documentary
Produced through the TV Lab at WNET/Thirteen, A Dancer's Journal follows Martha Clarke's creative process for a year as she finds her own voice as a choreographer following her departure from Pilobolus Dance Theater.
Director: Joyce Chopra | Stars: Félix Blaska, Martha Clarke, Philip Grausman
Votes: 8
93. Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush (1980)
46 min | Documentary
Like the forums and amphitheaters of ancient days, movie palaces like Brooklyn's Kings Theater were, in their hayday, cultural epicenters and community defining landmarks - microcosmic ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Blackwood | Stars: Patricia Davidson, Lee Erwin, Louis Filosa, Nathan Ginsburg
94. Partners and Crime (2003 TV Movie)
Crime, Drama
Director: Thomas Carter | Stars: Jennifer Esposito, Paul Adelstein, Audra McDonald, Robert Pastorelli
95. Sweet Sounds (1976)
29 min | Documentary, Short
In the mid-1970s, the Mannes College of Music, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, establishes a preschool program for children whom they identify as musically - or rhythmically - gifted. We ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Robbins | Stars: Jean Whitelock, Laura Wilson, John Desser, Hai-Kyung Suh
Votes: 26
96. Day by Day: A Director's Journey Part I (2003 Video)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Jason Free follows director Mark Pellington through his process of making his film, The Mothman Prophecies (2002). Behind the scenes material including some on set frustrations show us what on ordeal Pellington got himself into with making this film.
Directors: Jason Free, Mark Pellington | Stars: Peter Chesney, Michael L. Fink, Jason Free, Patricia A. Fullerton
Votes: 28
97. The Education of Alicia Florrick: Making Season One (2010 Video)
75 min | Documentary
A multi-part documentary on the making of the first season of the CBS hit drama "The Good Wife," featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the cast and crew.
Director: Charles de Lauzirika | Stars: Christine Baranski, Josh Charles, Matt Czuchry, Stephen Hendrickson
98. Mott Street (1995)
15 min | Short, Thriller
Director: Robert Levi | Stars: Jacqueline Collen, Vincent Pastore
99. Jewel Thief (2015)
6 min | Short, Adventure, Romance
'When a jewel thief closes in on his next target, little does he know that she has already stolen his heart, and a turbulent romance begins.'
Director: Markus Wolfgang Griesshammer | Stars: Evangelo Bousis, Dree Hemingway
100. Art Direction: Jason's Decorating Tips (2004 Video)
11 min | Documentary, Short
Stars: Robert Englund, Fred Murphy, Hang-Sang Poon, John Willett