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1. Goodfellas (1990)

R | 145 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco

Votes: 1,258,111 | Gross: $46.84M

2. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: We Like Mike (1997)

TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A good Samaritan's life is thrown into turmoil when he is accused of murder. And when Jack asks him to testify against the real killer, things only get worse for him.

Director: David Platt | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Benjamin Bratt, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston

Votes: 322

3. James at 16 (1977–1978)

60 min | Drama

James, a daydreamer and photographer, must learn to cope with life as his father moves the family from Oregon to Boston, Massachusetts.

Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 523

4. Groundhog Day (1993)

PG | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A narcissistic, self-centered weatherman finds himself in a time loop on Groundhog Day.

Director: Harold Ramis | Stars: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky

Votes: 685,390 | Gross: $70.91M

5. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: Smoke (2003)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The child of a popular comic dies after he is reportedly thrown out of a window during a fire. However, the investigation also uncovers allegations that the comic molested an 11-year-old boy years earlier.

Director: Constantine Makris | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston

Votes: 292

6. Carlito's Way (1993)

R | 144 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, John Leguizamo

Votes: 232,478 | Gross: $36.95M

7. Law & Order (1990– )

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

New York's finest police detectives and prosecutors fight to make the city a safer place. With integrity as the guiding force from investigation to verdict, the teams weigh every perspective in their commitment to finding justice.

Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, Dennis Farina, Sam Waterston

Votes: 44,649

8. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: The Gift (1978)

48 min | Drama

James looks forward to his upcoming 16th birthday and hopes to get a car as a gift. His uncle decides to give him a night with a call-girl instead. Shunning that situation, James falls in ... See full summary »

Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 25

9. Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama

A Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower-curtain-ring salesman as his only companion.

Director: John Hughes | Stars: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Michael McKean

Votes: 160,343 | Gross: $49.53M

10. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Four armed men hijack a New York City subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. The city's police are faced with a conundrum: Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo

Votes: 35,844 | Gross: $2.49M

11. Prince of the City (1981)

R | 167 min | Crime, Drama

A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption, and soon realises he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach, Richard Foronjy, Don Billett

Votes: 9,526 | Gross: $8.12M

12. A League of Their Own (1992)

PG | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amid their own growing rivalry.

Director: Penny Marshall | Stars: Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Madonna

Votes: 121,118 | Gross: $107.53M

13. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: Knocking Heads (1978)

49 min | Drama

James writes an article questioning the offense of the football team but pays the price in history class. Later he finds out the coach didn't play college football as he claims.

Director: Peter Levin | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 17

14. Gloria (1980)

PG | 123 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.

Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: Gena Rowlands, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen, Tony Knesich

Votes: 11,438

15. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: Hunter Country (1978)

49 min | Drama

James runs for student body president. Marlene is opposed to some of his views and decides that she will run against him.

Director: Stan Lathan | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 17

16. The Stepford Wives (1975)

PG | 115 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.

Director: Bryan Forbes | Stars: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman

Votes: 19,581 | Gross: $8.72M

17. Scrooged (1988)

PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A selfish, cynical television executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover

Votes: 116,457 | Gross: $60.33M

18. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: Champions (1978)

48 min | Drama

James, Sly and other Bunker Hill students fail to make it onto the school basketball team, and start up their own intramural team instead. But when he falls for Jennifer, a friend of ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 14

19. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: Rebel Without a Car (1978)

49 min | Drama

James takes driving lessons as he attempts to obtain his driver's license but finds trouble when he borrows the family car without permission.

Director: Larry Elikann | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 17

20. Murder in Peyton Place (1977 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama, Mystery

A former resident of the town of Peyton Place, now wealthy and powerful, secretly returns to the town and sets in motion a spate of killings designed as revenge for past wrongs.

Directors: Bruce Kessler, Robert Hartford-Davis | Stars: Dorothy Malone, Ed Nelson, Tim O'Connor, Joyce Jillson

Votes: 109

21. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: Listless Fever (1978)

49 min | Drama

James fears he may have contracted a venereal disease from Swedish exchange student Christine.

Director: Peter Levin | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 16

22. Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)

PG-13 | 132 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.

Director: Penny Marshall | Stars: Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, Adam Garcia, Brittany Murphy

Votes: 30,560 | Gross: $30.17M

23. The Cotton Club (1984)

R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Music

Meet the jazz musicians, dancers, owner, and guests (like gangster Dutch Schultz) of The Cotton Club in 1928-1930s Harlem.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee

Votes: 19,558 | Gross: $25.93M

24. An Unexpected Family (1996 TV Movie)

PG | 94 min | Drama

When Ruth Whitney (Christine Ebersole) abandons her two children with her sister Barbara (Stockard Channing), who is left to take care of them. At first, none of them like it, but soon they... See full summary »

Director: Larry Elikann | Stars: Stockard Channing, Stephen Collins, Christine Ebersole, Noah Fleiss

Votes: 323

25. Big Daddy (1999)

PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Drama

A lazy law school graduate adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned.

Director: Dennis Dugan | Stars: Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart, Cole Sprouse

Votes: 234,308 | Gross: $163.48M

26. Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)

PG | 93 min | Drama

Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor husband, her alienated daughter and estranged son.

Director: Gilbert Cates | Stars: Joanne Woodward, Martin Balsam, Sylvia Sidney, Tresa Hughes

Votes: 866

27. I.Q. (1994)

PG | 100 min | Comedy, Romance

A mechanic romances the mathematician niece of physicist Albert Einstein, with help from him and his friends.

Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan, Walter Matthau, Lou Jacobi

Votes: 26,639 | Gross: $26.37M

28. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: The Blowout (1978)

49 min | Drama

The school dance is around the corner, and everybody's looking for a date. James has a crush on a fellow student who's taller than he is, while fending off the advances of another who's much shorter than him.

Director: Larry Elikann | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 17

29. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: Ducks (1978)

49 min | Drama

When the expressway expansion threatens a local park James and his friends help relocate the park ducks to a new outdoor area rather than see them moved to a zoo.

Director: Peter Levin | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 13

30. The Cowboy Way (1994)

PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Two childhood friends who are rodeo cowboys travel from New Mexico to New York City searching for a friend who disappeared while looking for his daughter, who's just been smuggled into the US from Cuba.

Director: Gregg Champion | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Kiefer Sutherland, Dylan McDermott, Ernie Hudson

Votes: 9,024 | Gross: $20.28M

31. Mr. Wonderful (1993)

PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Romance

In an attempt to end alimony payments, a working class man tries to set up his ex wife with potential husbands.

Director: Anthony Minghella | Stars: Matt Dillon, Annabella Sciorra, Mary-Louise Parker, William Hurt

Votes: 3,540 | Gross: $3.13M

32. James at 16 (1977–1978)
Episode: Queen of the Silver Dollar (1978)

49 min | Drama

While away at a swim meet James convinces a young woman to spend the night in his motel room to win a bet with the other swimmers.

Director: George Tyne | Stars: Lance Kerwin, Linden Chiles, Lynn Carlin, Kim Richards

Votes: 15

33. Perfect Stranger (2007)

R | 109 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her childhood friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.

Director: James Foley | Stars: Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi, Richard Portnow

Votes: 51,170 | Gross: $23.98M

34. Boomerang (1992)

R | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A successful executive and womanizer finds his lifestyle choices have turned back on him when his new female boss turns out to be an even bigger deviant than he is.

Director: Reginald Hudlin | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Robin Givens, Halle Berry, David Alan Grier

Votes: 31,394 | Gross: $70.10M

35. Wise Guys (1986)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Crime

Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose two hundred fifty thousand dollars, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City, and comedy follows.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Danny DeVito, Joe Piscopo, Harvey Keitel, Ray Sharkey

Votes: 6,352 | Gross: $8.48M

36. Wanted: The Sundance Woman (1976 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 100 min | Drama, Western

The Sundance Kids widow Etta Place joins up with Pancho Villa.

Director: Lee Philips | Stars: Katharine Ross, Steve Forrest, Stella Stevens, Michael Constantine

Votes: 206

37. Three Men and a Little Lady (1990)

PG | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Three ex-dads quickly discover how empty life is without their little lady, and go to outrageous lengths in their efforts to win their daughter back in this critically acclaimed and equally charming sequel.

Director: Emile Ardolino | Stars: Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Nancy Travis

Votes: 26,694 | Gross: $71.61M

38. Out of Bounds (1986)

R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Daryl's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will have a better life there. After a baggage mix-up at the airport, Daryl finds himself in possession of a drug cache, which a drug dealer wants back.

Director: Richard Tuggle | Stars: Anthony Michael Hall, Jenny Wright, Jeff Kober, Glynn Turman

Votes: 2,078 | Gross: $5.10M

39. Big Trouble (1986)

R | 93 min | Comedy

Insurance agent plots with client to kill her nutty husband.

Directors: John Cassavetes, Andrew Bergman | Stars: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D'Angelo, Charles Durning

Votes: 1,540

40. Too Scared to Scream (1984)

R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A killer is brutally attacking several tenants that live in a high rise apartment building in New York City.

Director: Tony Lo Bianco | Stars: Mike Connors, Anne Archer, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Ian McShane

Votes: 835

41. So Fine (1981)

R | 90 min | Comedy

While trying to get his father out of a financial jam, a man comes up with an idea that turns into an unexpected overnight financial fashion success: bottomless pants.

Director: Andrew Bergman | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Jack Warden, Mariangela Melato, Richard Kiel

Votes: 1,264

42. Melissa (1995)

81 min | Drama

Melissa follows her dream of becoming a dancer all the way to New York City. But reality soon crushes her dreams forcing her to become a stripper to make ends meet. The seedy world of sex and drugs leads her into a dangerous love triangle.

Director: Steve Binder | Stars: Nicole Eggert, Rosemary Forsyth, Victor Slezak, Johnny La Spada

Votes: 148

43. The Fighting Nightingales (1978 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 25 min | Comedy, Drama, War

A short-lived spinoff of M.A.S.H. that followed an all female run military hospital .

Director: George Tyne | Stars: Jonathan Banks, Adrienne Barbeau, Stephanie Faracy, Livia Ginise