Sort by Number of Votes - Most Rated Movies and TV Shows With Willie Meyerhoff

1. Serpico (1973)

R | 130 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire

Votes: 134,741 | Gross: $29.80M

2. Midnight Cowboy (1969)

R | 113 min | Drama

A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.

Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver

Votes: 120,724 | Gross: $44.79M

3. Death Wish (1974)

R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks. In self-defense, the vengeful man kills muggers on the mean streets after dark.

Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats

Votes: 44,030 | Gross: $22.00M

4. The Anderson Tapes (1971)

GP | 99 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

After ten years in prison to protect a mafia family, Duke Anderson is released and he cashes in a debt of honor with the mob to bankroll a caper.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Ralph Meeker

Votes: 8,842 | Gross: $10.90M

5. Across 110th Street (1972)

R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Two New York City cops go after amateur crooks who are trying to rip off the Mafia and start a gang war.

Director: Barry Shear | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa, Frank Adu

Votes: 7,143 | Gross: $3.60M

6. An Unmarried Woman (1978)

R | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.

Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy, Cliff Gorman

Votes: 6,047 | Gross: $24.00M

7. The Boys in the Band (1970)

R | 118 min | Drama

Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual accidentally intrudes on a homosexual party.

Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Kenneth Nelson, Peter White, Leonard Frey, Frederick Combs

Votes: 5,889 | Gross: $7.63M

8. The Turning Point (1977)

PG | 119 min | Drama, Music, Romance

When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.

Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Tom Skerritt

Votes: 5,179 | Gross: $33.60M

9. Rachel, Rachel (1968)

Approved | 101 min | Drama, Romance

Rachel is a lonely school teacher who lives with her mother. When a man from the big city asks her out, she starts thinking about where she wants her life to go.

Director: Paul Newman | Stars: Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Kate Harrington, Estelle Parsons

Votes: 4,054

10. A Thousand Clowns (1965)

Approved | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A middle-aged iconoclast, doggedly avoiding the tedium of employment and conventional life, faces the prospect of losing custody of his young ward.

Director: Fred Coe | Stars: Jason Robards, Barbara Harris, Martin Balsam, Gene Saks

Votes: 3,701 | Gross: $5.23M

11. Hanky Panky (1982)

PG | 110 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Completely innocent man, Michael Jordon, is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect and goes on the run.

Director: Sidney Poitier | Stars: Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Kathleen Quinlan, Richard Widmark

Votes: 3,106 | Gross: $9.82M

12. Playing for Time (1980 TV Movie)

150 min | Drama, Music

Female prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp (Auschwitz) are spared from death in return for performing music for their captors.

Directors: Daniel Mann, Joseph Sargent | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Maud Adams, Christine Baranski

Votes: 2,885

13. Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)

R | 111 min | Comedy, Drama

The ups and downs of life as experienced by a group of aspiring young artists in the early Fifties New York.

Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Lenny Baker, Shelley Winters, Ellen Greene, Lois Smith

Votes: 2,471

14. The Subject Was Roses (1968)

G | 107 min | Drama

A young man returning home from World War II finds himself caught up in his parents' turbulent relationship.

Director: Ulu Grosbard | Stars: Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson, Martin Sheen, Don Saxon

Votes: 1,830

15. The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968)

PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy

A naive young Amish woman runs away from her home in Pennsylvania to New York City, where she hopes to act in religious stage plays but ends up performing in Burlesque theatre.

Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Jason Robards, Britt Ekland, Norman Wisdom, Forrest Tucker

Votes: 1,808

16. Rollover (1981)

R | 116 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

The wife of a murdered petrochemical company chairman and a banker investigating the liquidity of his new bank stumble upon an international financial scheme that could lead to global economic collapse.

Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Jane Fonda, Kris Kristofferson, Hume Cronyn, Josef Sommer

Votes: 1,443 | Gross: $10.85M

17. King of the Gypsies (1978)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama

In the criminal and violent world of modern-day Gypsies based in New York City, their 'king' Zharko Stepanowicz passes his leadership to his unwilling grandson, leaving the skipped father resentful.

Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: Eric Roberts, Judd Hirsch, Susan Sarandon, Sterling Hayden

Votes: 1,404 | Gross: $7.33M

18. Defiance (1980)

PG | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An out-of work merchant seaman single-handedly tames a powerful street gang "The Souls" that has been terrorizing his neighborhood on New York City's Lower East Side.

Director: John Flynn | Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Theresa Saldana, Danny Aiello, Rudy Ramos

Votes: 1,403

19. A Safe Place (1971)

GP | 94 min | Drama

A strange young woman lives in a fantasy world where she can never grow up.

Director: Henry Jaglom | Stars: Tuesday Weld, Orson Welles, Jack Nicholson, Phil Proctor

Votes: 1,336

20. The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972)

R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

An upper-class Manhattan divorcee comes to believe that her brother is possessed by the spirit of a serial killer who beheaded young women in Spanish Harlem.

Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Perry King, David Elliott, Lisa Kohane

Votes: 1,269 | Gross: $0.17M

21. Popi (1969)

G | 113 min | Comedy, Drama

A Puerto Rican widower concocts an extraordinary plan for making a better life for his two motherless sons.

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Alan Arkin, Rita Moreno, Reuben Figueroa, Miguel Alejandro

Votes: 1,001

22. Badge 373 (1973)

R | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After a suspended New York City cop's ex-partner is murdered, he vows to clean up the streets.

Director: Howard W. Koch | Stars: Robert Duvall, Verna Bloom, Henry Darrow, Eddie Egan

Votes: 907

23. Bye Bye Braverman (1968)

Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Drama

Four Jewish intellectuals carpool to the funeral of their old friend Leslie Braverman, who died suddenly at age 41.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: George Segal, Jack Warden, Joseph Wiseman, Sorrell Booke

Votes: 855

24. The Angel Levine (1970)

PG-13 | 104 min | Drama

Morris Mishkin is an elderly Jewish tailor plagued by hard times who prays to God for help and receives it in the person of a most unusual angel named Levine, a young, black, Jewish hustler from somewhere between Harlem and Heaven.

Director: Ján Kadár | Stars: Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska, Milo O'Shea

Votes: 839 | Gross: $0.43M

25. Such Good Friends (1971)

R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama

While awaiting the outcome of her husband's surgery, Julie Messinger discovers he has been having affairs.

Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Dyan Cannon, James Coco, Jennifer O'Neill, Ken Howard

Votes: 695

26. The Pursuit of Happiness (1971)

PG-13 | 93 min | Crime, Drama

A young college student is sent to prison as much for killing a pedestrian with his car as for not paying his parking tickets. When the opportunity presents itself he escapes and is ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Michael Sarrazin, Barbara Hershey, Arthur Hill, Ruth White

Votes: 444 | Gross: $0.05M

27. The Tiger Makes Out (1967)

Approved | 94 min | Comedy

A mailman looks for a woman to kidnap as a personal act of insurrection.

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Bob Dishy, John Harkins

Votes: 331

28. Law and Disorder (1974)

R | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

In the crime-ridden '70s New York City, two cops have had enough. They, along with few other disgruntled people decide to take the things into their own hands only to realize too late that they're in over their heads.

Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Carroll O'Connor, Ernest Borgnine, Ann Wedgeworth, Anita Dangler

Votes: 330 | Gross: $1.60M

29. The Bell Jar (1979)

R | 107 min | Biography, Drama

As the horrors beneath the idealized 1950s come about, a successful young woman finds herself having a serious mental breakdown when she returns to New England.

Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Marilyn Hassett, Julie Harris, Anne Jackson, Barbara Barrie

Votes: 298

30. Slow Dancing in the Big City (1978)

PG | 110 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

An aging out of shape reporter falls for a pretty but seriously ill ballerina.

Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Paul Sorvino, Anne Ditchburn, Nicolas Coster, Anita Dangler

Votes: 273 | Gross: $1.58M

31. Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure (1979 TV Movie)

97 min | Adventure, History

In 1620, the Assembly of the Pilgrims decides to emigrate to the young America because of the persecution they suffer by the English crown. This movie tells the adventurous journey of the Pilgrims to an unknown land and future.

Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Richard Crenna, Jenny Agutter, Michael Beck

Votes: 264

32. Girls Are for Loving (1973)

R | 95 min | Crime, Drama

Ginger is back, more daring than before as she takes you through heart pounding scenes of violence and gripping lust. Ginger's hard hitting display of martial arts could be performed by nobody more beautiful.

Director: Don Schain | Stars: Cheri Caffaro, Timothy Brown, Sheila Leighton, Scott Ellsworth

Votes: 256 | Gross: $0.09M

33. Strike Force (1975 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A New York City detective teams up with a federal agent and a state trooper to bust up a drug ring.

Director: Barry Shear | Stars: Cliff Gorman, Don Blakely, Richard Gere, Edward Grover

Votes: 252

34. Dragonfly (1976)

PG | 98 min | Drama

A man, recently released from a mental hospital, tries to track down his family.

Director: Gilbert Cates | Stars: Beau Bridges, Susan Sarandon, James Noble, Harriet Rogers

Votes: 250

35. Thieves (1977)

PG | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Dramedy of a native New York married couple who splits up in an attempt to rediscover their sanity.

Directors: John Berry, Alfred Viola | Stars: Marlo Thomas, Charles Grodin, Irwin Corey, Hector Elizondo

Votes: 179

36. Jacktown (1962)

Not Rated | 62 min | Drama

A young delinquent is sent to prison for a statutory rape.

Director: William Martin | Stars: Patty McCormack, Richard Meade, Douglas Rutherford, Russ Paquette

Votes: 173

37. Hardhat and Legs (1980 TV Movie)

96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Attractive socialite (Gless) falls for a construction worker with a gambling problem.

Director: Lee Philips | Stars: Kevin Dobson, Sharon Gless, Raymond Serra, Charlie Aiken

Votes: 100

38. A Place Called Today (1972)

X | 103 min | Drama

Racial tensions arise when a black lawyer runs for mayor of a racially divided town.

Director: Don Schain | Stars: J. Herbert Kerr Jr., Lana Wood, Cheri Caffaro, Richard Smedley

Votes: 80

39. Teacher, Teacher (1969 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

Striving to reassemble his life, alcoholic teacher Hamilton Cade accepts a job tutoring an "exceptional child," only to find that young Freddie is mentally-challenged (an outstanding ... See full summary »

Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: David McCallum, Ossie Davis, George Grizzard, Billy Schulman

Votes: 53

40. NET Playhouse (1964–1972)

90 min | Biography, Drama, History

American television anthology series of wide range of genres, from history and drama, to fantasy, and science fiction. Fiction novels, stories, stage plays, fairytales, and historic events are dramatized in each episode.

Stars: Irene Dailey, Rene Auberjonois, George Voskovec, Richard Dysart

Votes: 52

41. Wings of Ash: A Dramatization of the Life of Antonin Artaud (1978)

PG | 10 min | Short, Drama

Dr. Allende suggests Artaud, who is his house-guest for the night, go into psychoanalysis. Artaud responds negatively and emotionally.

Director: Marcus Reichert | Stars: Mick Jagger, Dennis Lipscomb, Frances Barber, Gabriel Byrne

Votes: 10

42. NET Playhouse (1964–1972)
Episode: Helen Hayes Remembers (1970)

90 min | Biography, Drama, History

Helen Hayes recreates some of her most famous stage roles, such as Mary Stuart in "Mary of Scotland", Queen Victoria in "Victoria Regina", Nora Melody in "A Touch of the Poet" and Grandma in "The American Dream".

Director: Nathan Kroll | Stars: George Abbott, Orson Bean, Zoe Caldwell, Oliver Conant