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1. American Masters (1985– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary series focusing on great American artists and personalities.
Stars: Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Tony Bennett, Dick Cavett
Votes: 1,168
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
PG | 129 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 8,403
3.
Hart to Hart (1979–1984)
Episode:
Blue Chip Murder
(1981)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The Harts find a hidden room in their house, and someone else may be looking for it to find the missing fortune of the original owner of the house.
Director: Dennis Donnelly | Stars: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander, Ruth Nelson
Votes: 110
4. Awakenings (1990)
PG-13 | 121 min | Biography, Drama
The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.
Director: Penny Marshall | Stars: Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson
Votes: 158,533 | Gross: $52.10M
5. 3 Women (1977)
PG | 124 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Two roommates/physical therapists, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule, Robert Fortier
Votes: 17,260
6. Humoresque (1946)
Approved | 125 min | Drama, Music, Mystery
A classical musician from the slums is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 4,944 | Gross: $2.28M
7.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
(1989)
TV-14 | Documentary, Biography, History
In the summer of 1931, three young idealists, Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg, were inspired by a passionate dream of transforming the American theater.
Director: David Heeley | Stars: Stella Adler, Margaret Barker, Phoebe Brand, Ellen Burstyn
Votes: 92
8. The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Passed | 137 min | Drama, War
A young priest is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Rose Stradner
Votes: 3,089
9. Skokie (1981 TV Movie)
PG | 125 min | Drama
A dramatization of the controversial trial concerning the right for Neo-Nazis to march in the predominately Jewish community of Skokie.
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Danny Kaye, John Rubinstein, Carl Reiner, Kim Hunter
Votes: 424
10. Ryan's Hope (1975–1989)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Romance
The trials and tribulations of The Ryans, an Irish-American family in New York City.
Stars: Helen Gallagher, Bernard Barrow, Nancy Addison, Michael Levin
Votes: 561
11. A Wedding (1978)
PG | 125 min | Comedy, Drama
The daughter of a Louisville truck driver marries the scion of a very wealthy family, but the reception at the family estate is boycotted by the invited guests.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Carol Burnett, Desi Arnaz Jr., Geraldine Chaplin, Howard Duff
Votes: 3,744
12. Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
Passed | 128 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 2,633
13. None Shall Escape (1944)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, War
The career of a German officer shown as flashbacks from his trial as a war criminal.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Marsha Hunt, Alexander Knox, Henry Travers, Erik Rolf
Votes: 975
14. The Late Show (1977)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
A grumpy semi-retired private investigator partners with a quirky female client to catch the people who murdered his partner.
Director: Robert Benton | Stars: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Eugene Roche
Votes: 3,300
15. Lethal Innocence (1991 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Three women (Blair Brown, Brenda Fricker, Teresa Wright) lead a Vermont town's adoption of a Cambodian family, refugees from the Khmer Rouge.
Director: Helen Whitney | Stars: Margaret Barker, David Strathairn, Blair Brown, Kevin Coleman
Votes: 19
16. Hart to Hart (1979–1984)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The globe-trotting adventures of amateur detectives Jonathan and Jennifer Hart.
Stars: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander, Lee Wilkof
Votes: 8,780
17. Till the End of Time (1946)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, Romance, War
Drama about former WW2 Marines readjusting to civilian life and dealing with their mental and physical traumas.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Mitchum, Guy Madison, Bill Williams
Votes: 1,602
18. Mother Wore Tights (1947)
Approved | 107 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Mona Freeman, Connie Marshall
Votes: 794
19. Wilson (1944)
Passed | 154 min | Biography, Drama, History
A chronicle of the political career of US President Woodrow Wilson.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Alexander Knox, Charles Coburn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 1,694 | Gross: $2.00M
20. Arch of Triumph (1948)
Approved | 120 min | Drama, Romance, War
Illegal refugees lead dark lives in pre-World War II Paris.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton, Louis Calhern
Votes: 1,917 | Gross: $1.40M
21. The Sea of Grass (1947)
Passed | 123 min | Drama, Western
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Robert Walker, Melvyn Douglas
Votes: 2,439
22. Sentimental Journey (1946)
Approved | 94 min | Drama
An actress, Julie Beck, finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon decides to adopt the child so... See full summary »
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, William Bendix, Cedric Hardwicke
Votes: 487
23. The Girl of the Limberlost (1945)
Passed | 60 min | Drama
Based on Gene Stratton-Porter's novel and a remake of Columbia's 1934 "The Girl of the Limberlost" and 1939's "Romance of the Limberlost," this one has altered the kinship ... See full summary »
Director: Mel Ferrer | Stars: Ruth Nelson, Dorinda Clifton, Loren Tindall, Gloria Holden
Votes: 31
24. Shock (1946)
Passed | 70 min | Film-Noir, Thriller
A psychologically distraught woman is committed to a private sanitarium by the man she witnessed commit a murder.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore, Anabel Shaw
Votes: 3,293
25. The North Star (1943)
Passed | 108 min | Drama, Romance, War
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the German invasion of June 1941.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan
Votes: 1,786
26. The Eve of St. Mark (1944)
Passed | 96 min | Drama, War
Hometown boy Quizz West (William Eythe) is one of fewer than 19,000 draftees in 1940. After being familiarized with his fiancée Janet and him, we find Quizz at a gun position fighting off ... See full summary »
Directors: John M. Stahl, Irving Pichel | Stars: Anne Baxter, William Eythe, Michael O'Shea, Vincent Price
Votes: 248
27. Visions (1976–1980)
Drama
Weekly anthology series of original dramas, often with period settings.
Stars: Ellen Travolta, Lesley Woods, Harry Basch, Philip Baker Hall
Votes: 85
28. A Christmas Without Snow (1980 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Music
A divorced woman moves to a new city, trying to rebuild her life. She joins the choir of a local church and is inspired by the choirmaster, a curmudgeonly old gentleman who will accept ... See full summary »
Director: John Korty | Stars: Michael Learned, John Houseman, Ramon Bieri, James Cromwell
Votes: 410
29. The Haunting Passion (1983 TV Movie)
98 min | Thriller, Drama
A couple moves into a romantic, isolated house as the husband starts a new career. Home alone, the wife suffers realistic erotic dreams of sex with an unknown man, sparked by a jealous demon.
Director: John Korty | Stars: Jane Seymour, Gerald McRaney, Millie Perkins, Ruth Nelson
Votes: 287
31. One Round Jones (1941)
20 min | Short, Comedy
A nightclub owner comes up with the idea to offer $50 to anyone who can go "one round" with his mystery fighter.
Director: Eddie Green | Stars: Allen Drew, Eddie Green, Helen Lewis, Ruth Nelson
32.
Visions (1976–1980)
Episode:
Ladies in Waiting
(1979)
Drama
One night in the lives of several waitresses at an upscale LA supper club. One is retiring after thirty years "in the business" and many of the younger women are jockeying/positioning ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg | Stars: Nellie Bellflower, Ronee Blakley, K Callan, Lilyan Chauvin
33.
Ryan's Hope (1975–1989)
Episode:
Episode #1.1322
(1980)
TV-PG | 22 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Jerry Evans | Stars: Bernard Barrow, Pamela Blair, Kaye de Lancey, Ron Hale
34.
Elliot Norton Reviews (1968– )
Episode:
Episode dated 9 April 1968
(1968)
Stars: Elliot Norton, Ruth Nelson, Donald Davis, James Cromwell