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1. Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price
Votes: 14,800
2. The Strange Woman (1946)
Approved | 100 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
In 1820s New England beautiful but poor and manipulative Jenny Hager marries rich old man Isaiah Poster but also seduces his son and his company foreman.
Directors: Edgar G. Ulmer, Douglas Sirk | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 2,461
3. Across to Singapore (1928)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Conflict ensues when a young man's childhood sweetheart becomes betrothed to his older brother.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Joan Crawford, Ernest Torrence, Frank Currier
Votes: 1,191
4. All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953)
Approved | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In the South Pacific islands, two brothers, one good and one bad, fight over the same girl and over a bag of pearls.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Ann Blyth, Betta St. John
Votes: 1,111
5. Small Town Girl (1936)
Passed | 106 min | Comedy, Romance
Kay lives in a small rural time and thinks that her life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night she meets young, handsome, rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while ... See full summary »
Directors: William A. Wellman, Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, Binnie Barnes, Andy Devine
Votes: 970
6. Suspense (1949–1954)
25 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Live plays featuring people who were in dangerous and threatening situations.
Stars: Rex Marshall, Robert Emhardt, Robert H. Harris, John Baragrey
Votes: 359
7. Man to Man (1930)
Passed | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An ex-convict comes home to a collegiate son who wants nothing to do with him.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Phillips Holmes, Grant Mitchell, Lucille Powers, Otis Harlan
Votes: 202
8. Johnny Trouble (1957)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Romance
Katherine Chandler lives in an apartment house that has been purchased by the local college for a boy's dormitory. She refuses to vacate, certain that her son, who was a wild boy and ... See full summary »
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Ethel Barrymore, Cecil Kellaway, Stuart Whitman, Carolyn Jones
Votes: 172
9. Too Good to Be True (1988 TV Movie)
95 min | Drama, Thriller
Writer Richard Harland and socialite Ellen Berent meet, fall in love, and soon marry. But her obsessive love threatens to destroy them and others around them.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II | Stars: Loni Anderson, Patrick Duffy, Glynnis O'Connor, Larry Drake
Votes: 165
10. 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
11. Too Busy to Work (1932)
76 min | Drama
A depression-era tramp named Jubilo goes looking for the wife that left him. While on his journey, he meets an assortment of characters.
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Will Rogers, Marian Nixon, Dick Powell, Frederick Burton
Votes: 135
12. Adventure's End (1937)
Approved | 60 min | Adventure, Drama
Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuades him to marry his daughter who is already being wooed by the first mate.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: John Wayne, Diana Gibson, Montagu Love, Moroni Olsen
Votes: 128
13. Someone to Remember (1943)
80 min | Drama
An elderly woman whose son disappeared refuses to move when her apartment building is turned into a college dormitory, as she is convinced that he will return one day. She grows attached to a student whom she believes is her grandson.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Mabel Paige, Harry Shannon, John Craven, Dorothy Morris
Votes: 112
14. Danger (1950–1955)
30 min | Drama
Live psychological and murder mystery dramas, and one of the first U.S. television dramas to make effective use of background music.
Stars: Dick Stark, Edward Binns, Richard Kiley, Joseph Anthony
Votes: 102
15. Jubilo (1919)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
An easy-going tramp with a love of food and an aversion to work suddenly gets deeply involved in the life of a farmer and his daughter.
Director: Clarence G. Badger | Stars: Will Rogers, Josie Sedgwick, Charles K. French, Willard Louis
Votes: 65
16. Jubilo, Jr. (1924)
20 min | Family, Comedy, Short
A young boy, determined to make money enough to buy his mother a birthday present, finds a variety of odd jobs and finally starts up a makeshift circus.
Director: Robert F. McGowan | Stars: Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon, Mickey Daniels, Allen 'Farina' Hoskins
Votes: 64
17. The Man Who Had Everything (1920)
50 min | Drama
Harry Bullway is a careless young man, always after a good time. He nearly runs over a blind beggar with his car, but he shows no remorse. In response to his heartlessness, the beggar ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Jack Pickford, Lionel Belmore, Priscilla Bonner, Shannon Day
Votes: 42
18. Godless Men (1920)
Passed | 70 min | Drama
On board his trading schooner in the South Pacific, tough sea captain Black Pawl confronts his own son, who has grown up in his father's shadow and reflects only his dark side.
Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Russell Simpson, Jim Mason, Helene Chadwick, John Bowers
Votes: 39
19. Man Trouble (1930)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Music
A hard-boiled nightclub owner saves a beautiful young girl from drowning. He promptly falls in love with her, but she prefers a younger, more-genteel lover.
Director: Berthold Viertel | Stars: Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Kenneth MacKenna, Sharon Lynn
Votes: 33
20. All the Brothers Were Valiant (1923)
101 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Joel Shore is made captain of the whaling schooner formerly headed by his courageous and admired brother, Mark, who was lost at sea. Accompanied by his bride, who suspects Joel to have a cowardly heart, they set sail for a whale hunt.
Director: Irvin Willat | Stars: Malcolm McGregor, Billie Dove, Lon Chaney, William Orlamond
Votes: 33
21. Not a Drum Was Heard (1924)
50 min | Crime, Western
Jack Mills loses his sweetheart, Jean Ross, to his friend, Bud Loupel. Behind in his payments on a house, Bud steals money from the bank where he works. The owner finds out, but Jack takes ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Buck Jones, Betty Bouton, Frank Campeau, Rhody Hathaway
Votes: 25
22. Playbill (1953–1959)
30 min | Drama
Stars: Barry Morse, Joseph Fürst, Katharine Blake, Frank Peddie
23. Masked Emotions (1929)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Directors: David Butler, Kenneth Hawks | Stars: George O'Brien, Nora Lane, James Gordon, J. Farrell MacDonald
24. Father and Son (1934)
48 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Monty Banks | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Esmond Knight, James Finlayson, Roland Culver
25. Always Audacious (1920)
50 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Reckless heir of an influential San Francisco family, Perry Danton must prove his worth by taking a job with the family lawyer before he is entrusted with the Danton fortune. When Perry's ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Wallace Reid, Margaret Loomis, Clarence Geldert, J.M. Dumont
26. Extravagance (1921)
Not Rated | 60 min | Drama
The marriage of Jim and Esther spirals downhill rapidly when Esther purchases a sable coat for herself. Hoping to live up to her expensive accessory, Esther soon is keeping company with ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: May Allison, Robert Edeson, Theodore von Eltz, William Courtright
27. After His Own Heart (1919)
Comedy, Drama
Socialite Thomas Wentworth Duncan reunites with his former lover, Sally Reeves, after a trustee absconds with his fortune. Realizing he cannot afford to support Sally in the manner to which... See full summary »
Director: Harry L. Franklin | Stars: Hale Hamilton, Naomi Childers, Mrs. Louis, Frank Hayes
28. The Great Accident (1920)
60 min | Drama
Winthrop Chase is running for mayor on the prohibition ticket in a town where his irresponsible son Wint is infamous for his drunken sprees. Wint is in love with Joan Caretall, whose father... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Tom Moore, Jane Novak, Andrew Robson, Willard Louis
29. The Fighting Lover (1921)
50 min | Comedy, Mystery
Andrew Forsdale bets $10,000 that his friend, Ned Randolph, will fall in love with one of three young women within 30 days. Vic Ragner, a mutual friend, is to be stakeholder and judge. The ... See full summary »
Director: Fred LeRoy Granville | Stars: Frank Mayo, Elinor Hancock, Gertrude Olmstead, Jackson Read
30. Teledrama (1955– )
Drama
Stars: Percival Ferreira, Cacilda Lanuza, Waldir Guedes, Eloísa Mafalda
31. Inside Story (1939)
Passed | 60 min | Drama
Three days before Christmas, newspaper reporter Barney Callahan regrets the drinking bout he went on the night before to celebrate his promotion to columnist. As Barney is lamenting not ... See full synopsis »
Director: Ricardo Cortez | Stars: Michael Whalen, Jean Rogers, Chick Chandler, Douglas Fowley
32.
Danger (1950–1955)
Episode:
Another Man's Poison
(1950)
30 min | Drama
A man tries to use mental telepathy for murder.
Stars: Henry Jones, John Newland, Dick Stark
33.
Danger (1950–1955)
Episode:
The Piano
(1955)
Drama
A gentle farmer must stand up to a bold intruder.
Stars: Ford Rainey, Leora Thatcher, Jack Warden
34.
Lux Video Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
Operation Weekend
(1952)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
Concerning a clash between a young medical student and a famous brain specialist.
Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: Marcel Hillaire, Jay Jackson, Ian Keith, Richard Kiley
35.
Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode:
Night of Evil
(1952)
30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Frenzy, fire and death are the results of an attempt to separate an old man from his fortune.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Pat Crowley, Skip Homeier, Henry Hull
36.
Teledrama (1955– )
Episode:
Amar Foi Minha Ruína
(1958)
Drama
Stars: Marco Antonio, Maria Helena Dias, Percival Ferreira, Eloísa Mafalda
37.
Playbill (1953–1959)
Episode:
Fiddling Fool
(1955)
Drama
Stars: Eugene Kash, Wendy Martin, Alex McKee