Movies watched in 2016
by MissSimonetta | created - 02 Jan 2016 | updated - 06 Jan 2017 | PublicFilms I watched for the first time in 2016
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1. Orpheus (1950)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
Director: Jean Cocteau | Stars: Jean Marais, François Périer, María Casares, Marie Déa
Votes: 13,390
2. The 25th, the First Day (1968)
8 min | Animation, Short
A short film made by Yuri Norstein for the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution, The 25th - the First Day recounts that day using art from the revolutionary period.
Directors: Yuri Norstein, Arkadiy Tyurin
Votes: 327
3. Lisa i zayats (1973)
12 min | Animation, Short, Family
The tale about mad fox which scared all the inhabitants of the forest.
Director: Yuri Norstein | Star: Viktor Khokhryakov
Votes: 672
4.
Faerie Tale Theatre (1982–1987)
Episode:
Jack and the Beanstalk
(1983)
TV-PG | 58 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Imaginative and creative Jack seeks adventure while trying to provide for himself and his mother. Will he ever solve the mystery of how his father died?
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Dennis Christopher, Elliott Gould, Jean Stapleton, Katherine Helmond
Votes: 179
5. Double Whoopee (1929)
20 min | Comedy, Short
Stanley and Oliver, in their new jobs as footman and doorman at a ritzy hotel, wreak their usual havoc on the guests, including partially undressing a swanky blonde guest and repeatedly ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Harlow, John Alban
Votes: 1,311
6. The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Music, Romance
An ice skater jeopardizes her marriage after she becomes a movie star.
Director: Reinhold Schünzel | Stars: Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Lew Ayres, Lewis Stone
Votes: 1,055
7. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure
In 1938, after his father goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones finds himself up against the Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 810,267 | Gross: $197.17M
8. Chandu the Magician (1932)
Passed | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When delusional madman Roxor kidnaps a scientist in hopes of using his death ray to achieve world dominance, he is opposed by Chandu, a powerful hypnotist and yogi.
Directors: William Cameron Menzies, Marcel Varnel | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Irene Ware, Bela Lugosi, Herbert Mundin
Votes: 1,138
9. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
PG-13 | 122 min | Action, Adventure
Indiana Jones becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf, Karen Allen
Votes: 491,083 | Gross: $317.10M
10. At Land (1944)
15 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Silently, a woman wakes on a beach as the tides go in reverse. Her dreamscape unfolds as she tries to locate a chess piece traveling from the beach to a party to a country road and then back.
Director: Maya Deren | Stars: John Cage, Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid, Hella Heyman
Votes: 3,338
11. Max Learns to Skate (1907)
5 min | Short, Comedy
Max causes havoc when he joins other skaters on a frozen lake.
Director: Louis J. Gasnier | Star: Max Linder
Votes: 237
12. The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure (2000 TV Movie)
85 min | Adventure, Family
When Professor Henry Jones Sr. is invited to give lectures all over the world in May 1908, he takes along his wife and son, and invites his former tutor Miss Helen Seymour to teach Henry Jr... See full summary »
Directors: Jim O'Brien, Michael Schultz | Stars: Corey Carrier, Margaret Tyzack, Ruth de Sosa, Lloyd Owen
Votes: 591
13. New York Nights (1929)
Passed | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Music
A chorus girl with marital woes is pursued by a gangster.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, John Wray, Lilyan Tashman
Votes: 270
14. Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)
Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Fantasy
An experiment with editing techniques that distort space and time in order to further contextualize an image.
Director: Maya Deren | Stars: Rita Christiani, Maya Deren, Anaïs Nin, Frank Westbrook
Votes: 1,828
15. The Monster (1903)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
Against a moonlit Egyptian backdrop duly encompassing the Sphinx, a narrator explains how a prince hires a mystic to bring back his beloved late wife.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,336
16. The Locked Door (1929)
74 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
On her first anniversary Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character from her own past, and determines to intervene.
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Barbara Stanwyck, William 'Stage' Boyd, Betty Bronson
Votes: 591
17. The Docks of New York (1928)
Not Rated | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova, Clyde Cook
Votes: 5,023
18. The Taming of the Shrew (1908)
17 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
Based on Shakespeare's play: Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Florence Lawrence, Arthur V. Johnson, Linda Arvidson, Harry Solter
Votes: 166
19. One Romantic Night (1930)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Romance
A scheming mother wishes to make a successful match between her daughter and a prince, yet another man, a commoner, may stand in the way.
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Lillian Gish, Rod La Rocque, Conrad Nagel, Marie Dressler
Votes: 465
20. Mooching Through Georgia (1939)
Approved | 19 min | Comedy, Short
A man relates how he outwitted the Yankee army during the Civil War.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Buster Keaton, Monte Collins, Harley Wood, Bud Jamison
Votes: 179
21. El moderno Barba Azul (1946)
90 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi, War
An American soldier marooned in Mexico is mistaken for a wife-butchering serial killer.
Director: Jaime Salvador | Stars: Buster Keaton, Luis G. Barreiro, Guillermo Bravo Sosa, Pedro Elviro
Votes: 125
22. Oh Doctor! (1917)
23 min | Comedy, Short
Roscoe is a doctor who falls in love with a pretty woman whose boyfriend, in turn, falls in love with Roscoe's wife's jewelry.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Mann
Votes: 1,143
23. Entr'acte (1924)
22 min | Short
An absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Jean Börlin, Inge Frïss, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp
Votes: 4,194
24. The Blue Bird (1918)
Not Rated | 75 min | Family, Fantasy
With the aid and guidance of a magical fairy, two peasant children set out in search of the elusive "Blue Bird of Happiness".
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Tula Belle, Robin Macdougall, Edwin E. Reed, Emma Lowry
Votes: 1,013
25. The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies (1994 TV Movie)
94 min | Action, Adventure
Indiana Jones struggles to help film director Erich von Stroheim finish his latest film with limited time and budget.
Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: Sean Patrick Flanery, Allison Smith, Bill Cusack, Julia Campbell
Votes: 666
26. Underworld (1927)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
Directors: Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson | Stars: George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, Fred Kohler
Votes: 3,470 | Gross: $1.64M
27. Ménilmontant (1926)
38 min | Short, Drama
A couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways.
Director: Dimitri Kirsanoff | Stars: Nadia Sibirskaïa, Yolande Beaulieu, Guy Belmont, Jean Pasquier
Votes: 2,727
28. Der weiße Teufel (1930)
110 min | Drama
His son and mother in peril at the hands of his enemies, a banished Caucasian warrior is forced to make an alliance with the Russians.
Director: Alexandre Volkoff | Stars: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Lil Dagover, Betty Amann, Fritz Alberti
Votes: 108
29. M (1931)
Passed | 99 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke
Votes: 168,293 | Gross: $0.03M
30. Sense and Sensibility (1995)
PG | 136 min | Drama, Romance
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the title opposites.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 125,568 | Gross: $43.18M
31. Orphans of the Storm (1921)
Not Rated | 150 min | Drama, History, Romance
Two orphaned sisters are caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, encountering misery and love along the way.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut, Frank Losee
Votes: 5,474 | Gross: $0.79M
32. L'homme à la tête en caoutchouc (1901)
TV-14 | 3 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 3,174
33. Miss Lulu Bett (1921)
Not Rated | 71 min | Comedy, Drama
A once-timid young woman gains newfound confidence after a failed marriage, much to the chagrin of her miserable family.
Director: William C. de Mille | Stars: Lois Wilson, Milton Sills, Theodore Roberts, Helen Ferguson
Votes: 414
34. Where East Is East (1929)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
When an animal trapper in Indo-China finds that his daughter's fiancé is being successfully seduced by her estranged mother, he takes appropriate action.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lon Chaney, Lupe Velez, Estelle Taylor, Lloyd Hughes
Votes: 722
35. The Enchanted Sedan Chair (1905)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Fantasy
A fine magician of the Royal Court materialises an elegant attire from a transparent glass container, and then, a refined dandy appears, as an ornate palanquin is summoned. Now, what does the illusionist have in mind?
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 533
36. Questions indiscrètes (1906)
2 min | Short, Music
Felix Mayol performs in color.
Director: Alice Guy | Star: Félix Mayol
Votes: 192
37. Daisy Doodad's Dial (1914)
9 min | Short, Comedy
Daisy and her husband both go in for a face-pulling contest, but when the big day comes she is unable to attend the competition, and her husband wins instead. When the next opportunity ... See full summary »
Director: Laurence Trimble | Stars: Florence Turner, Tom Powers
Votes: 275
38. Oliver Twist (1910)
Short, Drama
An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Director: Camille de Morlhon | Stars: Jean Périer, Louis Baron fils, Madeleine Guitty, Renée Pré
39. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Crime
A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood
Votes: 39,684
40. Hearts and Minds (1974)
R | 112 min | Documentary, History, War
A startling and courageous landmark documentary that unflinchingly confronted the United States' involvement in Vietnam at the height of the controversy that surrounded it.
Director: Peter Davis | Stars: Tin Chan, Chau Diem, Ngo Dinh Diem, John Foster Dulles
Votes: 6,103 | Gross: $0.03M
41. A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945)
4 min | Short, Fantasy, Music
A man dances in several locations, edited to have a fluent effect.
Director: Maya Deren | Star: Talley Beatty
Votes: 1,723
42. The Dragon Painter (1919)
TV-PG | 53 min | Drama, Romance
A wild man and genius becomes a master painter's disciple, but loses his divine gift when he finds love.
Director: William Worthington | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Edward Peil Sr., Toyo Fujita
Votes: 665
43. Gate of Hell (1953)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, History
A samurai pursues a married lady-in-waiting.
Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa | Stars: Machiko Kyô, Kazuo Hasegawa, Isao Yamagata, Yatarô Kurokawa
Votes: 4,267
44. The Tale of Tales (1979)
29 min | Animation, Short
Distant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted.
Director: Yuri Norstein | Star: Aleksandr Kalyagin
Votes: 4,123
45. Dodes'ka-den (1970)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama
Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami
Votes: 7,611
47. Les cambrioleurs (1897)
Not Rated | 1 min | Comedy, Short
Alice Guy's brief THE BURGLARS takes a classic cops-and-robbers set-up and places it upon the roofs of Paris circa late-1800s (albeit a Méliès-like set that approximates the city skyline). ... See full summary »
Director: Alice Guy
Votes: 279
48. The Forty-First (1956)
88 min | War, Drama, Romance
An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.
Director: Grigoriy Chukhray | Stars: Izolda Izvitskaya, Oleg Strizhenov, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Nikolai Dupak
Votes: 1,717
49. The Garage (1920)
25 min | Short, Comedy
Roscoe and Buster operate a combination garage and fire station. In the first half they destroy a car left for them to clean. In the second half they go off on a false alarm and return to find their own building on fire.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Molly Malone, Harry McCoy
Votes: 1,543
50. The Adventurer (I) (1917)
Unrated | 24 min | Comedy, Short
The Little Tramp escapes from prison; saves a girl and her mother from drowning; and creates havoc at a swank party.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman
Votes: 4,510
51. The Rink (1916)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Short
After causing restaurant chaos at work, a bumbling waiter tears up the local roller rink with his skating.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, James T. Kelley, Eric Campbell
Votes: 4,273
52. White Heat (1949)
Not Rated | 114 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly
Votes: 35,684
53. The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Charles Ruggles
Votes: 4,111
54. The Copper Beeches (1912)
25 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
An adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story about a father trying to gain control of his daughter's inheritance does not include Watson.
Director: Adrien Caillard | Star: Georges Tréville
Votes: 97
55. Ran (1985)
R | 160 min | Action, Drama, War
In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryû
Votes: 136,018 | Gross: $4.14M
56. Alpine Climbers (1936)
Approved | 10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Up in the Swiss Alps, Mickey Mouse tangles with a mother eagle, Donald Duck scraps with an edelweiss-stealing goat and Pluto gets inebriated with a St. Bernard.
Director: David Hand | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Melvin J. Gibby, Lee Millar
Votes: 1,066
57. Pool Sharks (1915)
TV-G | 10 min | Comedy, Short
Two romantic rivals play a game of pool for the hand of their lady love.
Director: Edwin Middleton | Stars: W.C. Fields, Marian West, Larry Westford, Bud Ross
Votes: 1,238
58. The Ewok Adventure (1984 TV Movie)
TV-G | 96 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Wicket the Ewok and his friends agree to help two shipwrecked human children, Mace and Cindel, on a quest to find their parents.
Director: John Korty | Stars: Eric Walker, Warwick Davis, Fionnula Flanagan, Guy Boyd
Votes: 12,490
59. Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985 TV Movie)
TV-G | 94 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Marauders raid the Ewok village and steal a power supply they believe to be magical. Wicket helps Cindel escape the evil witch Charal, and they befriend a hermit who may help them save the village.
Directors: Jim Wheat, Ken Wheat | Stars: Wilford Brimley, Warwick Davis, Aubree Miller, Siân Phillips
Votes: 10,762
60. Bay of Angels (1963)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Jean is a clerk in a bank. His colleague Caron is a gambler and gives him the virus. In the casinos, Jean meets Jackie. Their love affair will follow their luck at the roulette.
Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers, Henri Nassiet
Votes: 4,214 | Gross: $0.09M
61. The Broadway Melody (1929)
Passed | 100 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Bessie Love, Anita Page, Charles King, Eddie Kane
Votes: 7,996 | Gross: $6.12M
62. Barry Lyndon (1975)
PG | 185 min | Adventure, Drama, War
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger
Votes: 182,841
63. A.K. (1985)
71 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary that shows the production of Ran and discusses the film techniques of Kurosawa himself.
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Shigehiko Hasumi, Chris Marker, Akira Kurosawa, Tatsuya Nakadai
Votes: 1,223
64. Dickson Greeting (1891)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short
The very first American film shown to public audiences and the press. It depicts William K.L. Dickson taking off his hat and greeting the audience.
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: William K.L. Dickson
Votes: 1,564
65. Pauvre Pierrot (1892)
TV-PG | 4 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
One night, Arlequin come to see his lover Colombine. But then Pierrot knocks at the door and Colombine and Arlequin hide. Pierrot starts singing but Arlequin scares him and the poor man goes away.
Director: Émile Reynaud
Votes: 2,002
66. The Last Command (1928)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, History, Romance
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Jack Raymond
Votes: 4,508
67. Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894)
1 min | Documentary, Short
A man (Thomas Edison's assistant) takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. This is one of the earliest Thomas Edison films and was the first motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States.
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: Fred Ott
Votes: 2,188
68. The Letter (1929)
Passed | 65 min | Drama
Jeanne Eagels plays the bored and restless Leslie Crosbie who turns to another man, Geoffrey Hammond (Herbert Marshall) for attention when neglected by her husband Robert (Reginald Owen). ... See full summary »
Director: Jean de Limur | Stars: Jeanne Eagels, Reginald Owen, Herbert Marshall, Irene Browne
Votes: 875
69. The Lovers (1958)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Saddled with a dull husband and a foolish lover, a woman has an affair with a stranger.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny, Jean-Marc Bory, Judith Magre
Votes: 5,921
70. The Earrings of Madame De... (1953)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Romance
When an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt
Votes: 11,100
71. The X-Ray Fiend (1897)
TV-PG | 1 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
A man and woman are flirting when a professor turns on an X-ray machine, revealing their insides. After turning it off again the two have a dispute and break up.
Director: George Albert Smith | Stars: Laura Bayley, Tom Green
Votes: 1,042
72. Le Grand Amour (1969)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Romance
After fifteen years of average married life and stifling in-laws, a businessman undergoes a midlife crisis and pursues his attractive young secretary.
Director: Pierre Étaix | Stars: Pierre Étaix, Annie Fratellini, Nicole Calfan, Alain Janey
Votes: 1,384
73. The Bewitched Inn (1897)
Not Rated | 2 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
At a solitary cheap inn, a distant traveller overcome with fatigue has a close encounter with the supernatural.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,216
74. The Spanish Main (1945)
Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
After being wronged by the Caribbean authorities, a Dutch captain turns pirate to wage war.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Paul Henreid, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, Binnie Barnes
Votes: 1,874
75. Madame Bovary (1949)
Passed | 114 min | Drama, Romance
A provincial doctor's wife's romantic illusions about life and social status lead her to betray her naive husband, take on lovers, and run up ruinous debts.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan
Votes: 2,879
76. The Battle of Brazil: A Video History (1996 Video)
60 min | Comedy, Documentary
The struggle of the release of Brazil in the US is explained in this Criterion documentary.
Stars: Jack Mathews, Marvin Antonowsky, Marc Finkel, Terry Gilliam
Votes: 156
77. The Infernal Cauldron (1903)
2 min | Short, Horror
Two demons throw helpless captives into a boiling cauldron, and then try to summon forth their spirits.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 2,304
78. A Pair of Tights (1929)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Two girls are invited by the tight boss of the boyfriend of one of them for dinner. On the way they stop for a cheap ice-cream. But swinging doors, ventilators, policemen, and a brat make ... See full summary »
Director: Hal Yates | Stars: Anita Garvin, Marion Byron, Edgar Kennedy, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 154
79. Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005)
PG-13 | 101 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
An ex-mercenary is forced out of isolation when three mysterious men kidnap and brainwash the city's children afflicted with the Geostigma disease.
Directors: Tetsuya Nomura, Takeshi Nozue | Stars: Takahiro Sakurai, Ayumi Ito, Shôtarô Morikubo, Maaya Sakamoto
Votes: 58,170
80. Lost in Translation (2003)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.
Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris
Votes: 487,980 | Gross: $44.59M
81. Le brasier ardent (1923)
Not Rated | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A woman, named simply "Elle" and her husband, a wealthy industrialist, are not on the best of terms. While she enjoys the way he caters to her every whim, she wonders whether he really ... See full summary »
Director: Ivan Mozzhukhin | Stars: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Nathalie Lissenko, Nicolas Koline, Camille Bardou
Votes: 345
82. Black Orpheus (1959)
PG | 100 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.
Director: Marcel Camus | Stars: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira, Léa Garcia
Votes: 12,234
83. Breathless (1960)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama
A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Van Doude, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 87,851 | Gross: $0.34M
84. Gone to Earth (1950)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama, Romance
A beautiful, superstitious, animal-loving Gypsy is hotly desired by a fox-hunting squire even after she marries a clergyman.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack, Sybil Thorndike
Votes: 1,487
85. The Suburbanite (1904)
9 min | Comedy, Short
A family moves out to the 'peaceful' suburbs where everything goes wrong, including the mother-in-law moving in.
Votes: 259
86. Gretchen the Greenhorn (1916)
Not Rated | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A kind Dutch immigrant and her bumbling father are blackmailed by a gang of counterfeiters.
Directors: Chester M. Franklin, Sidney Franklin | Stars: Dorothy Gish, Ralph Lewis, Eugene Pallette, Elmo Lincoln
Votes: 536
87. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910)
Not Rated | 13 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Short
An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.
Director: Otis Turner | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Hobart Bosworth, Eugenie Besserer, Robert Z. Leonard
Votes: 1,637
88. The Country Doctor (1909)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Drama
While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken a turn for the worse.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Frank Powell, Florence Lawrence, Gladys Egan, Kate Bruce
Votes: 760
89. Beloved Enemy (1936)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance, War
In 1921, Irish rebels launch an uprising with the aim of creating an Irish republic, independent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. One of the rebellion's leaders and a ... See full summary »
Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Karen Morley, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 385
90. Obsession (1976)
PG | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his wife.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow, Sylvia Kuumba Williams
Votes: 11,627 | Gross: $1.00M
91. The Enchanted Drawing (1900)
2 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.
Director: J. Stuart Blackton | Star: J. Stuart Blackton
Votes: 1,413
92. George Bernard Shaw (1927)
5 min | Short
George Bernard Shaw speaks in a short film made by Lee De Forest in the early DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
Director: Lee De Forest | Star: George Bernard Shaw
Votes: 12
93. Autour d'une cabine (1894)
2 min | Animation, Short
Pre-cinematograph colour animation of a woman and man at the beach.
Director: Émile Reynaud
Votes: 1,166
94. No Smoking (1951)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Goofy (again playing George Geef) is a nicotine addict to the extreme. He smokes while doing income tax, before going to bed, after waking up in the morning, and at work. Finally, he ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Kinney | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Jack May
Votes: 634
95. The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's) (1894)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Action, Comedy
"A glove contest between trained cats. A very comical and amusing subject, and is sure to create a great laugh." (by Edison Films)
Directors: William K.L. Dickson, William Heise | Star: Henry Welton
Votes: 1,431
96. The Taming of the Snood (1940)
Approved | 20 min | Comedy, Short
A jewel thief uses Buster as an unsuspecting dupe.
Director: Jules White | Stars: Buster Keaton, Elsie Ames, Dorothy Appleby, Bruce Bennett
Votes: 150
97. M (1951)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In this Americanization of the 1931 German thriller, both the police and the criminal underworld stalk a mysterious serial killer who preys on little girls.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Martin Gabel, Luther Adler
Votes: 2,362
98. Motor Mania (1950)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mild-mannered average guy Mr. Walker (Goofy) turns into violent Mr. Wheeler when he starts driving. Back on his feet, Mr. Walker finds it nearly impossible to cross the street.
Director: Jack Kinney | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Bob Jackman, James MacDonald, John McLeish
Votes: 863
99. Les nouveaux messieurs (1929)
Not Rated | 135 min | Comedy
A theater electrician's love to a ballet dancer is tested when he is elected minister.
Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Gaby Morlay, Henry Roussel, Albert Préjean, Guy Ferrant
Votes: 191
100. Good Morning (1959)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishû Ryû, Kuniko Miyake
Votes: 11,002
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