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1. Apocalypse Now (1979)

R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, War

8.4
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94 Metascore

A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest

Votes: 711,336 | Gross: $83.47M

2. Scarface (1983)

R | 170 min | Crime, Drama

8.3
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65 Metascore

In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Votes: 918,036 | Gross: $45.60M

3. Almost Famous (2000)

R | 122 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

7.9
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90 Metascore

A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.

Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: Billy Crudup, Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson, Frances McDormand

Votes: 293,819 | Gross: $32.53M

4. Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)

PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Romance

7.0
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55 Metascore

When Keith goes out with Amanda, the girl of his dreams, Amanda's ex-boyfriend plans to get back at Keith. Meanwhile, Keith's best friend, tomboy Watts, realizes she has feelings for Keith.

Director: Howard Deutch | Stars: Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lea Thompson, Craig Sheffer

Votes: 34,729 | Gross: $18.55M

5. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

PG | 138 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

7.6
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90 Metascore

Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon

Votes: 217,206 | Gross: $132.09M

6. My Three Sons (1960–1972)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

7.1
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Widower Steve Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and is later aided by the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.

Stars: Fred MacMurray, Stanley Livingston, Don Grady, Barry Livingston

Votes: 4,502

7. Annie (1982)

PG | 127 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

6.6
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39 Metascore

A spunky young orphan is taken in by a rich eccentric, much to the chagrin of the cantankerous woman who runs the orphanage.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Ann Reinking

Votes: 49,583 | Gross: $57.06M

8. Jerry Maguire (1996)

R | 139 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

7.3
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77 Metascore

When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former colleague.

Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renée Zellweger, Kelly Preston

Votes: 287,401 | Gross: $153.95M

9. Say Anything (1989)

PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

7.3
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86 Metascore

A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college.

Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney, Lili Taylor

Votes: 96,063 | Gross: $20.78M

10. Short Circuit (1986)

PG | 98 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

6.6
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50 Metascore

Number 5 of a group of experimental robots in a lab is electrocuted, suddenly becomes intelligent, and escapes.

Director: John Badham | Stars: Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton

Votes: 66,419 | Gross: $40.70M

11. Kung Fu (1972–1975)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

7.6
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The adventures of Shaolin Monk Kwai Chang Caine as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.

Stars: David Carradine, Radames Pera, Keye Luke, Philip Ahn

Votes: 7,270

12. Rocky II (1979)

PG | 119 min | Drama, Sport

7.3
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61 Metascore

Rocky struggles in family life after his bout with Apollo Creed, while the embarrassed champ insistently goads him to accept a challenge for a rematch.

Director: Sylvester Stallone | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers

Votes: 231,560

13. 1941 (1979)

PG | 118 min | Action, Comedy, War

5.8
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34 Metascore

Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Treat Williams, Nancy Allen

Votes: 36,310 | Gross: $31.76M

14. Midnight Run (1988)

R | 126 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

7.5
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78 Metascore

A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail.

Director: Martin Brest | Stars: Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton

Votes: 94,357 | Gross: $38.41M

15. Singles (1992)

PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

6.7
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71 Metascore

A group of twenty-something friends search for love and success in grunge-era Seattle.

Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick, Sheila Kelley

Votes: 32,711 | Gross: $18.47M

16. The Way We Were (1973)

PG | 118 min | Drama, Romance

7.0
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61 Metascore

During post-WWII McCarthyism, a diametrically opposed couple come together only to find out that genuine friendship and physical attraction is not enough to overcome fundamental societal beliefs.

Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles

Votes: 27,514

17. History of the World: Part I (1981)

R | 92 min | Comedy, History, Musical

6.8
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47 Metascore

Mel Brooks brings his one-of-a-kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes.

Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Mel Brooks, Gregory Hines, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn

Votes: 55,295 | Gross: $31.67M

18. Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964–1969)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, War

7.0
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The misadventures of a bumbling U.S. Marine named Gomer Pyle.

Stars: Jim Nabors, Frank Sutton, Ronnie Schell, Roy Stuart

Votes: 4,180

19. The River (1984)

PG-13 | 124 min | Drama

6.3
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46 Metascore

A farming family battles severe storms, while taking a valiant stand against a bank foreclosure and a powerful land grabber.

Director: Mark Rydell | Stars: Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek, Shane Bailey, Becky Jo Lynch

Votes: 7,751 | Gross: $11.49M

20. Out for Justice (1991)

R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama

6.1
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38 Metascore

With his partner executed in broad daylight by a psychotic mafia enforcer, a veteran Brooklyn officer vows revenge. But is the unstoppable detective prepared to face the truth and pay the price of blood?

Director: John Flynn | Stars: Steven Seagal, William Forsythe, Jerry Orbach, Jo Champa

Votes: 25,841 | Gross: $39.67M

21. Blue Thunder (1983)

R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama

6.4
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66 Metascore

The cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle.

Director: John Badham | Stars: Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark, Daniel Stern

Votes: 23,376 | Gross: $42.31M

22. Deep Cover (1992)

R | 107 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

7.0
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67 Metascore

A uniformed police officer is recruited by the DEA to infiltrate a drug smuggling ring looking to expand its operation.

Director: Bill Duke | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Lira Angel, René Assa

Votes: 14,094 | Gross: $16.64M

23. Marked for Death (1990)

R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama

5.9
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49 Metascore

A retired DEA agent is out to hunt down and take out a Jamaican drug posse that has targeted he and his family for murder.

Director: Dwight H. Little | Stars: Steven Seagal, Joanna Pacula, Basil Wallace, Keith David

Votes: 24,353 | Gross: $46.04M

24. American Flyers (1985)

PG-13 | 113 min | Drama, Sport

6.5
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50 Metascore

Marcus takes his kid brother, David, with him for a physical test and a brain scan, suspecting cerebral aneurysm like their dad died of. They head off on bikes for the big Rockies bike race with Marcus' Sarah driving the van.

Director: John Badham | Stars: Kevin Costner, David Marshall Grant, Rae Dawn Chong, Alexandra Paul

Votes: 6,661 | Gross: $1.40M

25. Great Performances (1971– )

TV-G | 180 min | Music, Musical

7.9
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Filmed and televised versions of theater productions, such as plays, musicals, operas, ballets, and concerts from around the world.

Stars: Scott Yoo, Julie Andrews, Renée Fleming, Plácido Domingo

Votes: 903

26. Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Romance, Thriller

5.9
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52 Metascore

An American computer wiz who works at a New York bank is suddenly thrust into the world of international espionage after she inadvertently receives a coded message from a British spy.

Director: Penny Marshall | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, John Wood, Carol Kane

Votes: 20,773 | Gross: $25.59M

27. Black Sunday (1977)

R | 143 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

6.8
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57 Metascore

When a Black September terrorist group begins a plot to carry out a massive terrorist attack in the United States, an Israeli commando works with the FBI to identify the target and conspirators, and prevent the plan from succeeding.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver

Votes: 9,097 | Gross: $15.77M

28. Fools' Parade (1971)

GP | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

6.4
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In 1935, after forty years in a West Virginia prison, three released convicts wish to open a legitimate business using the $25,000 earned in prison, but a crooked prison guard in cahoots with the town banker plans to defraud them.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Stewart, George Kennedy, Anne Baxter, Strother Martin

Votes: 1,666 | Gross: $0.06M

29. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)

R | 96 min | Documentary

8.1
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Documentary that chronicles how Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) was plagued by extraordinary script, shooting, budget, and casting problems--nearly destroying the life and career of the celebrated director.

Directors: Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, George Lucas

Votes: 23,256 | Gross: $1.32M

30. Solar Crisis (1990)

PG-13 | 112 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

4.1
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A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts must fly toward the sun to drop a talking bomb at the right time for the flare to be aimed elsewhere.

Directors: Richard C. Sarafian, Arthur Marks | Stars: Tim Matheson, Charlton Heston, Peter Boyle, Annabel Schofield

Votes: 2,079

31. Rags to Riches (1987–1988)

Not Rated | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

7.6
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A wealthy widowed businessman adopts five daughters to live with him at his mansion.

Stars: Joseph Bologna, Tisha Campbell, Blanca De Garr, Kimiko Gelman

Votes: 807

32. The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978)

PG | 91 min | Comedy, Family, Sport

3.7
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31 Metascore

A small-time hustler takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best Little League baseball team, sparking off a series of adventures and mishaps.

Director: John Berry | Stars: Tony Curtis, Jackie Earle Haley, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Antonio Inoki

Votes: 3,276 | Gross: $14.00M

33. Lost Horizon (1973)

G | 150 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

5.2
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While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La.

Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Sally Kellerman, George Kennedy

Votes: 2,863 | Gross: $8.28M

34. The Great White Hope (1970)

PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

6.9
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53 Metascore

A Black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Lou Gilbert, Joel Fluellen

Votes: 2,806 | Gross: $2.70M

35. Mitchell (1975)

R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama

2.7
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A tough, slobby, honest cop tries to simultaneously take down heroin dealers and a corrupt businessman who murdered a burglar, even if it costs him his life.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Joe Don Baker, Martin Balsam, John Saxon, Linda Evans

Votes: 4,923

36. The Wrath of God (1972)

PG | 111 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

6.0
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Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.

Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Frank Langella, Rita Hayworth, John Colicos

Votes: 1,331

37. Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976)

PG | 115 min | Comedy, Crime

5.4
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In 1892, two vaudevillians and petty con artists get involved, together with the most notorious bank robber, in a New York City bank heist.

Director: Mark Rydell | Stars: James Caan, Elliott Gould, Michael Caine, Diane Keaton

Votes: 1,213

38. The Eleventh Hour (1962–1964)

60 min | Drama

7.8
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Criminal cases where criminals are mentally evaluated, or people in the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Stars: Jack Ging, Wendell Corey, Ralph Bellamy, Irene Martin

Votes: 125

39. Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970)

PG | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

6.1
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The story of three wildly neurotic characters: A facially disfigured girl, a homosexual paraplegic and an introvert epileptic who, after leaving the hospital, set up housekeeping together in a cottage where they support each other.

Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Liza Minnelli, Ken Howard, Robert Moore, James Coco

Votes: 1,027 | Gross: $0.39M

40. Illegally Yours (1988)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Crime

4.2
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A college dropout called for jury duty tries to prove his childhood crush innocent.

Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Rob Lowe, Colleen Camp, Kenneth Mars, Kim Myers

Votes: 1,229 | Gross: $0.26M

41. Where Have All the People Gone (1974 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 74 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

6.0
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After a catastrophic solar flare decimates almost all life, reducing people to powdery substance, a group of survivors treks across the devastated Earth.

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Peter Graves, George O'Hanlon Jr., Kathleen Quinlan, Verna Bloom

Votes: 1,502

42. Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986)

R | 97 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

6.3
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After severely burning himself in a drug incident, a comedian has a near death experience in which he reviews his life.

Director: Richard Pryor | Stars: Richard Pryor, Debbie Allen, Art Evans, Fay Hauser

Votes: 2,001 | Gross: $18.03M

43. Love at Large (1990)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

5.7
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Vampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his client disappears. Harry teams up with his own tail, P.I. Stella Wynkowski, to clear things up.

Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Tom Berenger, Elizabeth Perkins, Anne Archer, Kate Capshaw

Votes: 1,488 | Gross: $1.44M

44. Something Big (1971)

PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Western

5.7
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A man kidnaps the wife of a cavalry commander in order to exchange her for a Gatling gun that's being sold by a gun runner.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Dean Martin, Brian Keith, Carol White, Honor Blackman

Votes: 1,074

45. Going My Way (1962–1963)

60 min | Drama, Family

7.9
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Father O'Malley is sent to a parish in lower class New York City to assist old, crusty pastor Father Fitzgibbon. When he arrives, Father O'Malley meets his boyhood friend Tom Colwell, who is running the local community center.

Stars: Gene Kelly, Dick York, Leo G. Carroll, Nydia Westman

Votes: 111

46. Not My Kid (1985 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama

5.8
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A young drug-addicted teenager's family are in denial about it. She's sent to an intervention program where the addicts are confronted--by one another and by their families--in supervised ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Tuchner | Stars: George Segal, Stockard Channing, Andrew Robinson, Gary Bayer

Votes: 243

47. Honky (1971)

R | 92 min | Drama, Romance

5.0
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Sheila, an affluent black teenager, begins dating working class white teen Wayne, and asks him for help to sell a kilo of marijuana.

Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Brenda Sykes, John Neilson, Maia Danziger, Lincoln Kilpatrick

Votes: 151

48. J W Coop (1971)

GP | 112 min | Drama, Western

6.5
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After losing 9 years 9 months and thirteen days to prison, cowboy J. W. Coop is released to return to life as a professional rodeo cowboy in the 60's. Determined to make up for the lost '... See full summary »

Director: Cliff Robertson | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Geraldine Page, Cristina Ferrare, R.G. Armstrong

Votes: 590

49. Sam Benedict (1962–1963)

60 min | Drama

7.9
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Sam Benedict is the go to lawyer in the San Francisco area with a reputation for winning impossible cases. Trudy has his office running efficiently while Hank keeps things from getting too serious as Benedict's right hand man.

Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Richard Rust, Joan Tompkins, Alexander Lockwood

Votes: 93

50. King (1978)

271 min | Biography, Drama, History

8.0
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The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stretching from his days as a Southern Baptist minister up to his assassination in Memphis in 1968.

Stars: Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson, Tony Bennett, Roscoe Lee Browne

Votes: 444



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