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1. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
R | 99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody
Votes: 886,161 | Gross: $59.10M
2. The Reader (2008)
R | 124 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain
Votes: 259,758 | Gross: $34.19M
3. Chess Story (2021)
110 min | Drama, Thriller, War
To withstand the psychological torture of the Gestapo, a lawyer imprisoned by the Nazis finds refuge in the world of chess.
Director: Philipp Stölzl | Stars: Oliver Masucci, Dieter Bernhardt, Elias Gabele, Birgit Minichmayr
Votes: 4,617
4. The Chessplayer (2017)
98 min | Drama, History, War
Leaping from Spain's civil war to German occupied France, this period drama follows a chess master who is falsely accused of being a spy and sent to an SS prison in Paris.
Director: Luis Oliveros | Stars: Marc Clotet, Melina Matthews, Alejo Sauras, Lionel Auguste
Votes: 873
5. A Promise (2013)
R | 98 min | Drama, Romance
A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's protégé. Separated first by duties and then by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another.
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Alan Rickman, Richard Madden, Toby Murray
Votes: 4,514
6. Marie Antoinette (1938)
Passed | 149 min | Biography, Drama, History
The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier | Stars: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley
Votes: 3,284
7. Kysset (2022)
116 min | Drama, Romance
The story follows Anton whose top priority is to complete his training as a cavalry officer. During training he orders his platoon to help Baron and he meets the Baron's daughter Edith who has been in an accident.
Director: Bille August | Stars: David Dencik, Mads Bjørn, Mathias Bøgelund, Henrik Blauner Clausen
Votes: 547
8. Studio One (1948–1958)
60 min | Drama
A pinnacle of the Golden Age of Television, "Studio One" presented a wide range of memorable dramas and received eighteen Emmy nominations and five wins during its prestigious nine-year run on CBS.
Stars: Betty Furness, Paul Branson, Charlton Heston, Mary Sinclair
Votes: 328
9. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Romance
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet
Votes: 13,640
10. Mary Queen of Scots (2013)
119 min | Biography, Drama, History
A queen who lost three kingdoms. A wife who lost three husbands. A woman who lost her head.
Director: Thomas Imbach | Stars: Camille Rutherford, Mehdi Dehbi, Sean Biggerstaff, Aneurin Barnard
Votes: 994
11. Mesterjátszma (2023)
A young, revolutionary couple aboard the last train leaving Budapest after the Russian invasion of 1956.
Director: Barnabás Tóth | Stars: Károly Hajduk, Pál Mácsai, Gergely Váradi, Varga-Járó Sára
Votes: 210
12. Omnibus (1952–1961)
55 min | Drama, History, Music
Omnibus was a television program that sought to provide the best of what television could provide as the highest common denominator of intellectual curiosity and interest. This level of programing excellence has not been achieved again.
Stars: Alistair Cooke, Leonard Bernstein, Joseph N. Welch, Helen Hayes
Votes: 218
13. Fear (1954)
84 min | Drama
Irene Wagner, the wife of prominent scientist Albert Wagner, finds herself blackmailed about her affair by her lover's jealous ex-girlfriend. The plot, an experiment in causing fear, drives her into a rage.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Mathias Wieman, Renate Mannhardt, Kurt Kreuger
Votes: 1,772
14. Burning Secret (1988)
PG | 106 min | Drama
While being treated for asthma at a country spa, an American diplomat's lonely 12-year-old son is befriended and infatuated by a suave, mysterious baron. During a story of his war ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Birkin | Stars: David Eberts, Faye Dunaway, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ian Richardson
Votes: 515
15. Cinéma 16 (1975–1991)
Drama
Stars: Jean Toscan, Fernand Kindt, Richard Martin, Serge Martel
Votes: 33
16. Au théâtre ce soir (1966–1990)
Comedy
Stars: Edward Sanderson, Bernard Durand, Robert Manuel, Jacques Ardouin
Votes: 71
17. Play of the Week (1959–1961)
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
This syndicated anthology series staged a different play every week covering all genres, dramas, comedies, musicals, fantasies, mysteries, et al, utilizing some of the best talent appearing on Broadway.
Stars: Myron McCormick, Cathleen Nesbitt, Frank Conroy, Tim O'Connor
Votes: 80
18. Brainwashed (1960)
102 min | Drama, Sport, War
In 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the ... See full summary »
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Claire Bloom, Hansjörg Felmy, Mario Adorf
Votes: 656
19. Hollywood Insider (2018– )
Talk-Show
A show focused on substance and meaningful entertainment while staying away from gossip and scandal.
Stars: Pritan Ambroase, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Holland, Margot Robbie
Votes: 1,412
20. 24 heures de la vie d'une femme (2002)
107 min | Drama
Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to casino and sea-side resort of his early adolescence, Louis.
Director: Laurent Bouhnik | Stars: Agnès Jaoui, Michel Serrault, Bérénice Bejo, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Votes: 436
21. Clarissa (1998 TV Movie)
104 min | Drama
Clarissa Schuhmeister is sent away for a convent education - in accordance with the tradition of the time - by her widowed father. While observing his daughter's progress from afar he is ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Deray | Stars: Maruschka Detmers, Claude Rich, Stéphane Freiss, Elena Sofia Ricci
Votes: 80
22. Beware of Pity (1946)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, Romance
A man asks a pretty young woman for a dance and discovers that she has been paralyzed in a fall from a horse and can't walk. Taking pity on her, he begins spending more and more time with ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Lilli Palmer, Albert Lieven, Cedric Hardwicke, Gladys Cooper
Votes: 306
23. 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (1968)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama
By the Lake of Lugano, in 1917, Lady Alice Copland, the widow of an English lord, meets Thomas in a casino. The handsome young man has just gambled all his money away. Moved both by his lot... See full summary »
Director: Dominique Delouche | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Robert Hoffmann, Romina Power, Léna Skerla
Votes: 122
24. Teatr Polskiego Radia (2004 Podcast Series)
Comedy, Drama, History
Podcast based on original scripts and radio adaptations of stage dramas, novels, reports and poetry.
Stars: Andrzej Mastalerz, Krzysztof Wakulinski, Marcin Przybylski, Leon Charewicz
Votes: 12
25. Affair in Monte Carlo (1952)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, Romance
A writer tells a crowd in a café about a woman he knows, who once feel deeply in love with a desperate, compulsive gambler.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Merle Oberon, Richard Todd, Leo Genn, Stephen Murray
Votes: 192
26. Impaciencia del corazón (1960)
90 min | Drama, Romance, War
Director: Tito Davison | Stars: Martha Mijares, Christiane Martel, Armando Silvestre, Andrés Soler
Votes: 13
27. Lilli Palmer Theatre (1955–1956)
30 min | Drama
Stars: Lilli Palmer, Roddy Hughes, Ian Fleming, Brian Wilde
Votes: 25
28. Oviedo Express (2007)
109 min | Comedy, Romance
We are in 1885. In a ghostly train, the Oviedo Express, the actors that represent the theatrical adaptation of Clarín's 'The Regent' are traveling. The arrival of the comedians to the ... See full summary »
Director: Gonzalo Suárez | Stars: Carmelo Gómez, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Bárbara Goenaga, Maribel Verdú
Votes: 250
29. Volpone (1941)
94 min | Comedy
Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is dying, knowing that each will try to curry favor with him in order to be named... See full summary »
Directors: Maurice Tourneur, Jacques de Baroncelli | Stars: Harry Baur, Louis Jouvet, Charles Dullin, Jean Témerson
Votes: 401
30. Amoki (1927)
70 min | Drama
A drug-addicted doctor has in Africa isolated life. Once a pretty young married woman asks him to make an abortion. He'll agree only if she accepts his sexual offer. Woman refuses and leaves immediately.
Director: Kote Marjanishvili | Stars: Nato Vachnadze, Aleksandre Imedashvili, Valerian Gunia, Siko Palavandishvili
Votes: 40
31. Sakknovella (1959 TV Movie)
51 min
Director: Zoltán Várkonyi | Stars: György Pálos, Teri Náray, Tamás Major, László Ungváry
Votes: 15
32. Amok (1934)
67 min | Drama
Dr. Holk leads a lonely life in a small dutch colony in the tropics. Fled from love and civilisation his only companions are alcohol and his work, which takes him to the villages ravaged by... See full summary »
Director: Fyodor Otsep | Stars: Marcelle Chantal, Jean Yonnel, Valéry Inkijinoff, Jean Servais
Votes: 137
33. Feliz año, amor mío (1957)
87 min | Drama, Romance
Idolizing a classical violinist, a girl sends him a Happy New Year note (the day they met) regularly with flowers but years after he abandons her and her baby after a night of bliss, he flirts with her anew as if she is a different person.
Director: Tulio Demicheli | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Marga López, Ignacio López Tarso, Andrés Velázquez
Votes: 65
34. The Burning Secret (1933)
92 min | Drama
A boy and his mother stay in a hotel near a lake where they meet a fascinating man.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Alfred Abel, Hilde Wagener, Hans Joachim Schaufuß, Lucie Höflich
Votes: 130
35. La confusion des sentiments (1981 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
This was the first TV film I directed and also the first and only film with an openly homosexual Subject ... adapted from a Stefan Zweig novel. It is the story of a middle age professor who... See full summary »
Director: Etienne Périer | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Pierre Malet, Gila von Weitershausen, Heinz Weiss
Votes: 120
36. The Miniaturist of Junagadh (2022)
29 min | Short, Drama
1947. The ravages of Partition have compelled an old artist, Husyn Naqqash, to sell his ancestral home in Western India and move with his family to Karachi, Pakistan. When Kishorilal, a ... See full summary »
Director: Kaushal Oza | Stars: Naseeruddin Shah, Rasika Dugal, Raj Arjun, Padmavati Rao
Votes: 77
37. Lettre d'une inconnue (2002 TV Movie)
92 min | Drama
A famous author receives a letter from a stranger that reveals how, without him having ever known anything, she dedicated her life to and burned her love for him.
Director: Jacques Deray | Stars: Irène Jacob, Christopher Thompson, Joachim Bißmeier, Karlheinz Hackl
Votes: 128
38. Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life (1961 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Helen Lester is in love with a man she has known just 24 hours, a playboy who spent time in jail for passing bad checks. Though the man has promised to change, most of her straitlaced ... See full summary »
Director: Silvio Narizzano | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Rip Torn, Helena de Crespo, Jerry Orbach
Votes: 79
39. Yi ge mo sheng nu ren de lai xin (2004)
90 min | Drama
Peking, 1948. A winter night. A man returns home to find a letter awaiting him written by a woman before her death. in the letter she tells him the story of her love for him -a life-long ... See full summary »
Director: Jinglei Xu | Stars: Jue Huang, Wen Jiang, Huang Jiao, Yuan Lin
Votes: 754
40. Valkoiset ruusut (1943)
102 min | Drama, Romance
The uncredited adaptation of Stefan Zweig's novel (1922), made five years before Max Ophüls' more widely recognized "Letter from an Unknown Woman" (1948).
Director: Hannu Leminen | Stars: Helena Kara, Tauno Palo, Aku Korhonen, Aino Lohikoski
Votes: 151
41. Amok (1993)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
1912. The steamer sails for Europe. At night, two men meet in the shadow of the side. A frank conversation takes place between them, in which one of them, imbued with confidence in the ... See full summary »
Director: Joël Farges | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Andrzej Seweryn, Bernard Le Coq, Joaquim de Almeida
Votes: 44
42. On Camera (1954–1958)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
Stars: James Doohan, Joe Austin, Austin Willis, Ruth Springford
Votes: 29
43. 24 Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau (1931)
73 min | Drama
After the tragic death from malaria of her beloved husband his rich widow Helga Vanroh travels restlessly around various Mediterranean countries. In the luxurious surroundings of a hotel in... See full summary »
Director: Robert Land | Stars: Henny Porten, Walter Rilla, Friedrich Kayßler, Margo Lion
Votes: 34
44. Narkose (1929)
Drama
Director: Alfred Abel | Stars: Renée Héribel, Jack Trevor, Alfred Abel, Fritz Alberti
Votes: 16
45. Grande Teatro Tupi (1951–1964)
Drama
A tele theater where famous plays were adapted and staged, during the days before videotaped Brazilian television, and performed by a cast of accomplished actors.
Stars: Wanda Kosmo, Rita Cléos, Nydia Lícia, Rildo Gonçalves
Votes: 31
46. La peur (1992 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama
Director: Daniel Vigne | Stars: Marianne Basler, Hanns Zischler, Cinzia de Ponti, Nicola Farron
47. La dernière fête (1996 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, Romance
The story of Marquise De Prie, the wife of Marquis De Savoy and the mistress of King Louis XV.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Stéphane Freiss, Bernard Dhéran, Manfred Andrae
Votes: 31
48. Amok (1944)
106 min | Drama
A doctor embezzles the proceeds of his Parisian clinic in order to better support the manipulative woman with whom he is having an affair. After losing all the money while gambling, he is ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Momplet | Stars: María Félix, Julián Soler, Estela Inda, Miguel Ángel Ferriz
Votes: 54
49. La peur (1936)
87 min | Drama
A lady who had a secret affair lives in fear.
Director: Viktor Tourjansky | Stars: Gaby Morlay, Charles Vanel, Jane Lamy, Ginette Leclerc
Votes: 42
50. Chess
Drama | Announced
From Nazi occupied Vienna to swinging 50's London, the past is relived in the present in a dramatic game with terminal consequences.
Director: Garo Berberian