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1. Glitter Palace (2002 TV Movie)
76 min | Documentary
A heartwarming documentary about the legendary Motion Picture Country Home, retirement home to Hollywood.
Director: Barry Avrich | Stars: Dolores Albin, John Alderson, Robert Cornthwaite, Frances Hyland
Votes: 12
2. Young Guns II (1990)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Drama, Western
Billy the Kid and his band of outlaws are pursued across New Mexico territory by Sheriff Pat Garrett, whom the young gunslingers must face-off with if they are to reach the safety of the border.
Director: Geoff Murphy | Stars: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater
Votes: 39,072 | Gross: $44.14M
3. The Beiderbecke Tapes (1987– )
151 min | Drama, Music, Mystery
Trevor Chaplin teaches woodwork and likes to listen to jazz. Jill Swinburne teaches English and wants to help save the planet. They live together and just want a quiet life. Then they meet ... See full summary »
Stars: James Bolam, Barbara Flynn, Dudley Sutton, Malcolm Storry
Votes: 375
4.
Boon (1986–1992)
Episode:
Taken for a Ride
(1987)
TV-MA | 51 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Ken comes to the rescue of two damsels in distress - one is a page 3 girl Shandy Tremblett, and the other is a fire engine. Also at stake is a company involved in a fierce and unscrupulous takeover bid.
Director: Robert Tronson | Stars: Michael Elphick, James Coombes, Malcolm Storry, Ian Redford
Votes: 11
5.
The Beiderbecke Tapes (1987– )
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(1987)
Drama, Music, Mystery
Trevor and Jill go on a trip to Amsterdam with their class from "San Quentin High" - but the class has decamped. Trevor and Jill meet "The Honourable Order of Elks" who are "looking for a ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Parker | Stars: James Bolam, Barbara Flynn, Dudley Sutton, Malcolm Storry
Votes: 21
6. Boon (1986–1992)
TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Ken Boon and Harry Crawford are two middle-aged ex-firemen. Harry retires and opens a hotel (The Grand Hotel), with Ken as a temporary odd-job man.
Stars: Michael Elphick, David Daker, Neil Morrissey, Elizabeth Carling
Votes: 1,009
7. Jake Speed (1986)
PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
In a world where, unbeknownst to the public, all famous pulp fiction heroes are real, one of them, Jake Speed, agrees to help desperate Margaret Winston save her sister from sadistic white slaver Sid, who's operating in Africa.
Director: Andrew Lane | Stars: Wayne Crawford, Dennis Christopher, Karen Kopins, John Hurt
Votes: 1,117 | Gross: $1.94M
8. The American Way (1986)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A group of Vietnam vets disturbs television programs from a B-29 airplane. They want to sabotage Mrs Westinghouse's political campaign who is running for the Senate in support of US ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Phillips | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Michael J. Pollard, Eugene Lipinski, James Aubrey
Votes: 532
9. Reunion at Fairborough (1985 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama, Romance
World War II vets travel to England for a reunion at their old base. Once there, one (Robert Mitchum) rekindles an old romance with an old flame (Deborah Kerr).
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Judi Trott, Barry Morse
Votes: 469
10.
Automan (1983–1984)
Episode:
Club Ten
(1984)
60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Walter, Automan and Roxanne travel to an exclusive Caribbean resort called Club Ten. Roxanne gets a panicked message from her missing writer friend. They find they are all caught up in a diamond-smuggling racket.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: Desi Arnaz Jr., Chuck Wagner, Heather McNair, Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Votes: 30
11. Automan (1983–1984)
70 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A computer-generated superhero and his human creator fight crime in the city.
Stars: Desi Arnaz Jr., Chuck Wagner, Heather McNair, Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Votes: 2,106
12. Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983–1986)
60 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Private detective Philip Marlowe solves many crimes in Los Angeles during the 1930s.
Stars: Powers Boothe, Billy Kearns, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Ken Pogue
Votes: 484
13.
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983–1986)
Episode:
The King in Yellow
(1983)
Action, Crime, Mystery
King Leopardi was a big celebrity and an even bigger ladykiller, but when he winds up dead in a singer's boudoir all the evidence points to her. Marlowe is hired to find the real killers ... See full summary »
Director: Bryan Forbes | Stars: Powers Boothe, Billy Kearns, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Lise Hilboldt
Votes: 43
14. Evil Under the Sun (1982)
PG | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Peter Ustinov, James Mason, Maggie Smith, Colin Blakely
Votes: 20,231 | Gross: $6.11M
15. Ragtime (1981)
PG | 155 min | Drama
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: James Cagney, Elizabeth McGovern, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Brad Dourif
Votes: 10,567 | Gross: $21.02M
16. Haywire (1980 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 200 min | Biography, Drama
Based on autobiography of Brooke Hayward, daughter of famous Broadway producer Leland Hayward and actress Margaret Sullavan, who grows up in the glamorous, cruel and emotionally unstable world of her parents.
Director: Michael Tuchner | Stars: Lee Remick, Jason Robards, Deborah Raffin, Dianne Hull
Votes: 154
17. The Memory of Eva Ryker (1980 TV Movie)
144 min | Drama
A young woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a cruise ship torpedoed during World War II. When her father hires an investigator to look into the ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Natalie Wood, Robert Foxworth, Roddy McDowall, Bradford Dillman
Votes: 161
18. Sunnyside (1979)
R | 100 min | Action, Drama
Nick Martin, a young street tough, has a change of heart and attempts to stop the gang violence in his neighborhood.
Director: Timothy Galfas | Stars: Joey Travolta, John Lansing, Stacey Pickren, Andrew Rubin
Votes: 92
19. Tropic (1979– )
60 min | Comedy
Comedy about the residents of an executive housing estate, written by Leslie Thomas and based on his novel 'Tropic of Ruislip'.
Stars: Ronald Pickup, Hilary Tindall, Hilary Pritchard, John Clive
Votes: 8
20.
Tropic (1979– )
Episode:
Chapter Two: Sweet Sunday
(1979)
Comedy
Director: Matthew Robinson | Stars: Ronald Pickup, Hilary Tindall, Hilary Pritchard, John Clive
21. The Wild Geese (1978)
R | 134 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A British banker hires a group of British mercenaries to rescue a deposed African President from the hands of a corrupt African dictator.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Krüger
Votes: 14,191
22. The Cat from Outer Space (1978)
G | 104 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Three scientists help an Alien feline, stranded on Earth, to repair its damaged spacecraft in order to return home but their efforts are hampered by inept army officials and foreign spies.
Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, Harry Morgan, Roddy McDowall
Votes: 6,101
23. Valentino (1977)
R | 128 min | Biography, Drama
In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips, Carol Kane
Votes: 2,155
24. Candleshoe (1977)
G | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Welcome to Candleshoe, a stately English manor where a swashbuckling pirate hid a fortune in Spanish doubloons centuries ago. And that's what young orphan Casey and a sly con man are determined to find.
Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Jodie Foster, David Niven, Helen Hayes, Leo McKern
Votes: 4,956
25. The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976)
PG | 103 min | Comedy, Western
A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures before falling in love with him.
Director: Melvin Frank | Stars: George Segal, Goldie Hawn, Conrad Janis, Thayer David
Votes: 2,010
26. Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free (1976 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Western
A traveling horse trader and his young nephew travel the west in search of the boy's prize Arabian horse, who has been stolen by a bounty hunter.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Don Meredith, Jeff Corey, Gloria DeHaven, L.Q. Jones
Votes: 104
27.
Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode:
A Matter of Faith
(1976)
TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Caroline cuts her leg and the cut becomes a bacterial infection that puts her on a life-or-death collision course.
Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson
Votes: 367
28. Swiss Family Robinson (1975–1976)
60 min | Adventure, Family
Karl Robinson, his wife, two children and an orphaned girl end up on a volcanic island after a shipwreck. Also on the island is Jeremiah Worth, who was abandoned there seven years earlier.
Stars: Martin Milner, Pat Delaney, Willie Aames, Eric Olson
Votes: 233
29. The Log of the Black Pearl (1975 TV Movie)
85 min | Adventure
A young stockbroker, Christopher Sand, inherits an old ship named 'Black Pearl' along with a medallion that is the key to a sunken nazi treasure. But there are people also looking for the ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Kiel Martin, Jack Kruschen, Glenn Corbett
Votes: 85
30.
Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode:
Money Crop
(1975)
TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Fearing a swindle, angry Walnut Grove farmers vent their frustration on the anxious, pregnant wife of the man who promised them a good deal on hybrid corn and then doesn't show up with the ... See full summary »
Director: Leo Penn | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson
Votes: 349
31.
Swiss Family Robinson (1975–1976)
Episode:
Man O'War
(1975)
60 min | Adventure, Family
Two escaped British prisoners capture Lotte and Helga, holding them hostage. Karl and his sons must find a way to rescue them without anyone getting injured.
Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Martin Milner, Pat Delaney, Willie Aames, Eric Olson
32.
Swiss Family Robinson (1975–1976)
Episode:
The Castaway
(1975)
60 min | Adventure, Family
The Robinson's come across a sailor who claims to have been shipwrecked. But the family find they are harboring a man who killed the ship's captain and see their dream of returning to civilization endangered.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Martin Milner, Pat Delaney, Willie Aames, Eric Olson
33. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Family, Romance
The life and adventures of the Ingalls family in the nineteenth century American Midwest.
Stars: Melissa Gilbert, Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Rachel Lindsay Greenbush
Votes: 26,936
34. Blazing Saddles (1974)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Western
In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman
Votes: 152,663 | Gross: $119.50M
35. The Klansman (1974)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A local Sheriff tries to keep the peace as racial strife hits his small Alabama town as tensions boil over when a black man is accused of raping a white woman.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Lee Marvin, Richard Burton, Cameron Mitchell, O.J. Simpson
Votes: 1,804 | Gross: $0.53M
36.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
Kisses at Fifty
(1973)
69 min | Comedy, Drama
A fifty-year-old factory worker leaves his wife of many years for another woman.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Bill Maynard, Rosemarie Dunham, Marjorie Yates, Lori Wells
Votes: 98
37.
Hec Ramsey (1972–1974)
Episode:
A Hard Road to Vengeance
(1973)
75 min | Drama, Mystery, Western
A lawman arrives in the town of New Prospect to tell the citizens his side of the story of how he shot the idolized outlaw they're about to honor with a monument.
Director: Alex March | Stars: Richard Boone, Rick Lenz, Harry Morgan, Stuart Whitman
Votes: 31
38.
Kung Fu (1972–1975)
Episode:
The Third Man
(1973)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Caine challenges a killer to be his own judge and his victim's widow to accept the verdict.
Director: Charles S. Dubin | Stars: David Carradine, Ed Nelson, Fred Beir, Barbara Stuart
Votes: 129
39. Kung Fu (1972–1975)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
The adventures of Shaolin Monk Kwai Chang Caine as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.
Stars: David Carradine, Radames Pera, Keye Luke, Philip Ahn
Votes: 7,263
40. Fear Is the Key (1972)
PG | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A man is in radio contact with his family when their airplane is shot down. He wants those responsible and becomes a criminal to get a job as deep sea diver with those salvaging the plane's cargo.
Director: Michael Tuchner | Stars: Barry Newman, Suzy Kendall, John Vernon, Dolph Sweet
Votes: 2,274
41. Hec Ramsey (1972–1974)
90 min | Drama, Mystery, Western
The adventures of Hec Ramsey, a turn-of-the-20th-century detective who prefers to use his brains instead of his guns.
Stars: Richard Boone, Rick Lenz, Harry Morgan, Dennis Rucker
Votes: 433
42. Top of the Heap (1972)
R | 90 min | Drama
A D.C. black cop is pushed over the edge when he is passed over for a promotion, leading him on a violent personal crusade against criminals punctuated by feverish psychedelic dream visions.
Director: Christopher St. John | Stars: Christopher St. John, Paula Kelly, Florence St. Peter, Leonard Kuras
Votes: 399 | Gross: $0.26M
43.
Night Gallery (1969–1973)
Episode:
Lindemann's Catch/A Feast of Blood/The Late Mr. Peddington
(1972)
TV-PG | 30 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A fisherman catches a mermaid and wishes for her to be human. / Sheila Grey's homely suitor Henry Mallory gives her a brooch that seems almost alive. / Impoverished Cora Peddington shops for a cheap funeral for her husband.
Directors: Jeff Corey, Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Sondra Locke, Harry Morgan, Stuart Whitman, Jack Aranson
Votes: 320
44.
The Onedin Line (1971–1980)
Episode:
A Woman Alone
(1972)
TV-PG | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Anne lodges with a grateful Mrs. Jessop but initially has trouble finding work until she becomes a bookkeeper in a shop. James discovers a stowaway, Peter Thompson, whom he puts to work on ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Jenkins | Stars: Peter Gilmore, Anne Stallybrass, Jack Wild, Philip Bond
Votes: 20
45. The Persuaders! (1971–1972)
60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two worlds collide when Lord Brett Sinclair, a titled British man, and Danny Wilde, a Bronx-raised, self-made American, reluctantly join forces to right wrongs and protect the innocent.
Stars: Tony Curtis, Roger Moore, Laurence Naismith, Juliet Harmer
Votes: 5,903
46. The Onedin Line (1971–1980)
TV-PG | 50 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
James Onedin marries Anne Webster in order to get his hands on a ship. However the marriage turns out to be one of true love. James is ruthless in his attempt to get a shipping line started in Liverpool of the 1860s.
Stars: Peter Gilmore, Jessica Benton, Howard Lang, Mary Webster
Votes: 1,119
47. Brett (1971)
50 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Brett, a journalist with a taste for the high life and a penchant for trouble. a powerful and ambitious man who would become a tycoon, but with his shady past catching up with him, brings him conflict with people he had crossed.
Stars: Patrick Allen, Robin Bailey, Hannah Gordon, Michael Hawkins
Votes: 12
48. A Kiss Is Just a Kiss (1971 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Alvin Rakoff | Stars: David Hedison, Keir Dullea, Lelia Goldoni, John Alderson
49.
Brett (1971)
Episode:
Welcome to the City
(1971)
Adventure, Biography, Drama
Director: Jonathan Alwyn | Stars: Patrick Allen, Judith Arthy, Clive Revill, Robin Bailey
50.
The Persuaders! (1971–1972)
Episode:
Angie... Angie
(1971)
52 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Danny's in for a trip down memory lane when he bumps into a long-lost childhood buddy from the Bronx slums, but shortly, as bullets start flying all over the sun-kissed French Riviera, the masks will fall off.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Tony Curtis, Roger Moore, Larry Storch, Laurence Naismith
Votes: 298