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1. Jezebel (1938)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, Romance
In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay
Votes: 15,064
2. The Good Earth (1937)
Passed | 138 min | Drama, Romance
Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.
Directors: Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming, Gustav Machatý, Sam Wood | Stars: Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly, Tilly Losch
Votes: 5,414
3. The Great Gatsby (1949)
91 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A Jazz Age bootlegger learns the hard way about the wages of sin.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Alan Ladd, Betty Field, Macdonald Carey, Ruth Hussey
Votes: 892
4. Up in Arms (1944)
Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Musical
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs. He's also lovesick when it comes to pretty Mary Morgan, unaware that she's in love with his best friend Joe.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Danny Kaye, Dana Andrews, Dinah Shore, Constance Dowling
Votes: 1,123
5. Kraft Theatre (1947–1958)
60 min | Drama
A well-received anthology series presenting live television dramas.
Stars: Ed Herlihy, Vaughn Taylor, Valerie Cossart, Dan Morgan
Votes: 223
6. Lux Video Theatre (1950–1959)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
Live dramatic shows featuring Hollywood stars, adaptations of motion pictures, and a host accompanying. The host would introduce each act, and would conduct an interview with the stars at the end of the play.
Stars: Ken Carpenter, Jay Jackson, Otto Kruger, Gordon MacRae
Votes: 154
7. Whoopee! (1930)
Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks... See full summary »
Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta, Paul Gregory, Eleanor Hunt
Votes: 1,191
8. The Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1956)
60 min | Drama
This live dramatic series featured original stories and adaptations of novels, plays, etc., during its eight-year run. During the first year, the show was sponsored by the Actor's Equity ... See full summary »
Stars: Bert Lytell, Jay Jackson, Bob Stanton, E.G. Marshall
Votes: 137
9. Julius Caesar (1950)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, History
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
Director: David Bradley | Stars: Charlton Heston, Grosvenor Glenn, Harold Tasker, David Bradley
Votes: 473
10. The 9th Guest (1934)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Eight people are invited to dinner in a fashionable penthouse apartment. After they are wined and dined, a voice on the radio informs them that they will be murdered unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest: Death.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Donald Cook, Genevieve Tobin, Hardie Albright, Edward Ellis
Votes: 673
11. My Sin (1931)
Passed | 80 min | Drama
Acquitted of murder charges, Carlotta moves to New York to start a new life.
Director: George Abbott | Stars: Tallulah Bankhead, Fredric March, Harry Davenport, Scott Kolk
Votes: 210
12. A Connecticut Yankee (1931)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A radio salesman finds himself transported back in time to King Arthur's court.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Will Rogers, William Farnum, Frank Albertson, Maureen O'Sullivan
Votes: 442
13. The Lighthouse by the Sea (1924)
Passed | 70 min | Family, Drama
A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is going blind they will remove him, and a gang of liquor-smugglers is trying to destroy ... See full summary »
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, William Collier Jr., Louise Fazenda, Charles Hill Mailes
Votes: 68
14. Lazybones (1925)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, having returned from World War I, he discovers that he loves the grown-up girl.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Buck Jones, Madge Bellamy, Virginia Marshall, Edythe Chapman
Votes: 574
15. The Haunted House (1928)
70 min | Comedy, Drama
Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of the will, where they meet the estate's staff, which includes a nurse, a crazed doctor, and a sinister handyman.
Director: Benjamin Christensen | Stars: Larry Kent, Thelma Todd, Edmund Breese, Sidney Bracey
Votes: 21
16. Mr. and Mrs. North (1942)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Jerry North (William Post Jr.) and his wife, Pam (Gracie Allen) return home after a night away in a holiday spirit. That soon vanishes when the body of a man falls out of the liquor closet.... See full summary »
Director: Robert B. Sinclair | Stars: Gracie Allen, William Post Jr., Paul Kelly, Rose Hobart
Votes: 339
17. The Man Who Came Back (1931)
Passed | 74 min | Drama
A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Kenneth MacKenna, William Holden
Votes: 116
18. The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England (1914)
54 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After being expelled from college, Giles runs away from home and meets and falls for a young lady.
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Vivian Martin, Alec B. Francis, Chester Barnett, Gyp Williams
Votes: 350
19. The Donovan Affair (1929)
Passed | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The lights go out at a high-society dinner party and one of the guests is murdered. The police are summoned and Inspector Killian shows up with his assistant Carney. In order to get a clear... See full summary »
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier, William Collier Jr., Agnes Ayres
Votes: 121
20. Musical Comedy Time (1950–1951)
60 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Live adaptations of operettas and Broadway musical comedies.
Stars: Lynne Forrester, Billy Gilbert, Erik Rhodes, Melville Cooper
Votes: 28
21. Spring Is Here (1930)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Betty a young woman is going steady with Terry but falls for an exciting new comer to town Steve. Betty's father wants her to marry Terry but she doesn't see that she actually is in love ... See full summary »
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Lawrence Gray, Alexander Gray, Bernice Claire, Louise Fazenda
Votes: 313
22. They Had to See Paris (1929)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides that the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Will Rogers, Irene Rich, Owen Davis Jr., Marguerite Churchill
Votes: 203
23. Chinatown Charlie (1928)
70 min | Comedy
Chinatown bus tour guide Charlie (Hines) finds that one of his lady riders (Louise Lorraine) is pursued by a Tong gang because she has a supposedly magic ring. They kidnap her and she's ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Hines | Stars: Johnny Hines, Louise Lorraine, Harry Gribbon, Fred Kohler
24. Broadway Television Theatre (1952–1954)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
This syndicated show presented adaptations of Broadway shows.
Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Edward Everett Horton, Melville Cooper, Ernest Truex
Votes: 37
25. The Prudential Family Playhouse (1950–1951)
60 min | Drama
Live dramatic series featuring top rated actors in adaptations of Broadway plays or top rated novels.
Stars: Walter Abel, Cliff Hall, Eva Marie Saint, Kevin McCarthy
Votes: 39
26. Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model (1924)
70 min | Drama
Badly mistreated by her father, Nellie Horton is taken in charge by Thomas Lipton. She grows up in poverty not knowing her true identity as the heiress to her mother's millions. Upon the ... See full summary »
Director: Emmett J. Flynn | Stars: Claire Windsor, Edmund Lowe, Mae Busch, Raymond Griffith
27. Broadway After Dark (1924)
70 min | Comedy
A brash young man-about-town is attracted to a Broadway actress, but her flirtatious ways turn him off and make him want to change his life. He takes a room in a quite boarding-house that ... See full summary »
Director: Monta Bell | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Norma Shearer, Anna Q. Nilsson, Edmund Burns
28. Icebound (1924)
70 min | Drama, Romance
Ben Jordan runs away after accidentally setting fire to a barn in his small New England community. He returns when his mother dies to find that she has left everything to her ward, Jane Crosby.
Director: William C. de Mille | Stars: Richard Dix, Lois Wilson, Helen Dubois, Edna May Oliver
29. Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950–1952)
60 min | Drama
Dramatic anthology series presenting plays adopted from Pulitzer Prize winning stories, plays, novels, et cetera.
Stars: Elmer Davis, Charles Dingle, Richard Bishop, Joan Chandler
Votes: 50
30. Three Married Men (1936)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Romance
Two families arrive for their children's wedding and try to prove their superiority to each other.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Lynne Overman, William Frawley, Roscoe Karns, Mary Brian
Votes: 23
31. Forever After (1926)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Romance, War
From the day they first met in the schoolhouse in a small New England town, Theodore Wayne, son of a respected lawyer, and Jennie Clapton, daughter of wealthy parents, have been sweethearts... See full summary »
Director: F. Harmon Weight | Stars: Lloyd Hughes, Mary Astor, Hallam Cooley, David Torrence
Votes: 16
32. Lola (I) (1914)
50 min | Drama
With the electric-ray machine that he invented, a scientist brings his daughter back to life after she dies in a car crash but he fails to revive her soul at the same time.
Director: James Young | Stars: Clara Kimball Young, Alec B. Francis, Edward Kimball, James Young
Votes: 22
33. The Nervous Wreck (1926)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Henry Williams, out in Arizona looking for a cure for his imaginary ills, stops at the ranch of Jud Morgan, and decides to stay. Jud's daughter, Sally, attracts his attention, although she ... See full summary »
Director: Scott Sidney | Stars: Harrison Ford, Phyllis Haver, Chester Conklin, Mack Swain
Votes: 49
34. Blind Alleys (1927)
60 min | Drama, Romance
Merchant marine Captain Dan Kirby arrives in New York City with his Cuban bride, María. Leaving his hotel to buy flowers, Dan forgets his billfold but meets Julio Lachados, a former admirer... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Evelyn Brent, Greta Nissen, Hugh Miller
35. Cabaret (1927)
70 min | Crime, Drama
Gloria Trask, who has risen from a squalid East Side environment to stardom in Costigan's nightclub, is admired by Tom Westcott, detective, and Sam Roberts, a gangster with whom her brother... See full summary »
Director: Robert G. Vignola | Stars: Gilda Gray, Tom Moore, Chester Conklin, Mona Palma
Votes: 8
36. The Girl Habit (1931)
77 min | Comedy
A mild Lothario tries to get arrested as protection from the gangster husband who has threatened him.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Tamara Geva, Sue Conroy, Margaret Dumont
Votes: 28
37. Only Saps Work (1930)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A youngster on his way to a health resort job offers his older boarding house mate a ride along with him, unaware that the loud talking slippery character is a crook.
Directors: Cyril Gardner, Edwin H. Knopf | Stars: Leon Errol, Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 48
38. Easy Come, Easy Go (1928)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Robert Parker, a sincere young man temporarily out of work, innocently becomes the accomplice of Jim Bailey, a veteran thief. When he learns the truth, Parker attempts to shield Bailey and ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Richard Dix, Nancy Carroll, Charles Sellon, Frank Currier
Votes: 12
39. Through the Breakers (1928)
55 min | Drama
An American man on a South Pacific Island receives a dear John letter from his fiancee. A lovely native girl decides to console him. Then, fate washes a woman ashore from a sinking ship.
Director: Joseph Boyle | Stars: Margaret Livingston, Holmes Herbert, Clyde Cook, Natalie Joyce
Votes: 32
40. Hold 'Em Yale (1928)
80 min | Comedy
A young man from Argentina goes to Yale where he plays football and falls in love with a professor's beautiful daughter.
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Jeanette Loff, Hugh Allan, Joseph Cawthorn
Votes: 33
41. Good Time Charley (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Drama
Charley Keane is a well-known vaudeville performer who seems to have everything going for him--fame, money, and a beautiful daughter on whom he dotes. Unfortunately, things start to slide ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Warner Oland, Helene Costello, Clyde Cook, Montagu Love
Votes: 43
42. So This Is London (1930)
92 min | Comedy, Romance
Hiram Draper is an all-American self-made man who profoundly dislikes everything British. Yet he must travel to London with his family. When Junior falls in love with an aristocratic girl, ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Will Rogers, Irene Rich, Frank Albertson, Maureen O'Sullivan
Votes: 34
43. Blow Your Own Horn (1923)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
Jack Dunbar, needing a job, meets millionaire Nicholas Small, who gives him advice and presents him as a colleague. Small would like his daughter, Anne, to marry inventor Gillen Jolyon. ... See full summary »
Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Warner Baxter, Ralph Lewis, Derelys Perdue, Eugene Acker
44. Up the Ladder (1925)
61 min | Drama
Jane secretly funds her husband's company, and all goes well until success makes him stray.
Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: Virginia Valli, Forrest Stanley, Margaret Livingston, Holmes Herbert
Votes: 65
45. Sinners (1920)
50 min | Drama, Romance
Mary Horton, a country girl, moves to New York to make her living as a seamstress, where she meets Hilda Newton, an old neighbor who has renounced her country ways for the immoral life of ... See full summary »
Director: Kenneth S. Webb | Stars: Alice Brady, Agnes Everett, Augusta Anderson, Lorraine Frost
46. The Woman Next Door (1915)
Drama
Tom Grayson, an engineer employed in Mexico, quarrels with some Greasers. When they plot to kill him, the plan is overheard by Lake, a promoter of worthless mines who scents an opportunity ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Edwin | Stars: Irene Fenwick, Richie Ling, Lawson Butt, Ben Taggart
47. How Baxter Butted In (1925)
70 min | Comedy
Poor Henry Baxter, a lowly clerk in a newspaper office, is in love with Beulah, the beautiful office stenographer, but Beulah barely knows he exists. As if Henry's unrequited love isn't bad... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Dorothy Devore, Matt Moore, Ward Crane, Wilfred Lucas
48. Tonight at Twelve (1929)
78 min | Drama
lice Keith, a suspicious wife, believes that her husband is running after his old sweetheart, Dora Eldredge, and two other married women in her circle. Making her accusation during a dinner... See full summary »
Director: Harry A. Pollard | Stars: Madge Bellamy, Robert Ellis, Margaret Livingston, Vera Reynolds
49. Mr. and Mrs. North (1946 TV Movie)
100 min | Comedy, Mystery
Director: Fred Coe | Stars: John McQuade, Maxine Stewart, Tito Vuolo, Patricia Shay
50. NBC Television Theatre (1946–1947)
Drama
Stars: John McQuade, Carol Goodner, Estelle Winwood, Joyce Van Patten