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1. Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Votes: 1,936
2. The Bride Wore Red (1937)
Passed | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A lounge singer is sent by a count to pose as a wealthy socialite.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Robert Young, Billie Burke
Votes: 1,276
3. Get Your Man (1927)
63 min | Comedy, Romance
A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome that obstacle and get her man.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Josef Swickard, Josephine Dunn
Votes: 268
4. The Day I Lost My Shadow (2018)
94 min | Drama
In Syria in 2012 a mother ventures into a war zone to find a gas cylinder so she can prepare a meal for her son. She discovers that in the besieged area the people there have lost their shadows.
Director: Soudade Kaadan | Stars: Reham Alkassar, Sawsan Arshid, Yara Ibrahim, Samer Ismail
Votes: 315
5. Crossing Delancey (1988)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
A Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker.
Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Reizl Bozyk, Jeroen Krabbé
Votes: 4,972 | Gross: $16.26M
6. Hester Street (1975)
PG | 89 min | Drama, Romance
In 1896, a Russian Jewish woman immigrates to New York's Lower East Side to reunite with her Americanized husband, but has difficulty assimilating.
Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Mel Howard, Dorrie Kavanaugh
Votes: 1,883 | Gross: $5.00M
7. Finnegan Begin Again (1985 TV Movie)
115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mike Finnegan is nearing retirement and taking care of his senile wife. He can't get her to allow him to throw anything out and their house has become unmanageable. He meets Liz DeHaan, who... See full summary »
Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: Mary Tyler Moore, Robert Preston, Sam Waterston, Sylvia Sidney
Votes: 478
8. Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker who left him to return to her husband, an A-Frame salesman.
Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Riegert, Kenneth McMillan
Votes: 1,654
9. A Fish in the Bathtub (1998)
PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy
An exasperated son and daughter plays mediator and matchmaker for her elderly, eccentric parents, who just cannot stop annoying each other.
Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Mark Ruffalo, Jane Adams
Votes: 562
10. Ruddigore (1966)
54 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
For centuries, the Murgatroyd family, the Baronets of Ruddigore, have been under a witch's curse -- commit a crime every day, or die in agony. Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, the rightful heir, has... See full summary »
Director: Joy Batchelor | Stars: John Reed, David Palmer, Kenneth Sandford, Ann Hood
Votes: 52
11. Animal Farm (1954)
Approved | 72 min | Animation, Drama
A successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong when the victors create a new tyranny among themselves.
Directors: Joy Batchelor, John Halas | Stars: Gordon Heath, Maurice Denham
Votes: 19,006
14. Flu-ing Squad (1951)
90 min | Animation
Thinking about home improvements? Why not try getting your house to pop a couple of pills? In this cinema ad it works far better than any lick of paint. The producers at Halas and Batchelor... See full summary »
Directors: Joy Batchelor, John Halas
15. Antonia's Line (1995)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A Dutch matron establishes and, for several generations, oversees a close-knit, matriarchal community where feminism and liberalism thrive.
Director: Marleen Gorris | Stars: Willeke van Ammelrooy, Jan Decleir, Veerle van Overloop, Els Dottermans
Votes: 9,479 | Gross: $4.82M
16. Broken Mirrors (1984)
112 min | Drama, Thriller
Released in Holland as Gebroken Spiegels, Broken Mirrors is set for the most part in an Amsterdam brothel. Lineke Ripman and Henriette Tol play two whores who begin to rebel against their ... See full summary »
Director: Marleen Gorris | Stars: Lineke Rijxman, Henriëtte Tol, Edda Barends, Coby Stunnenberg
Votes: 235
17. The Asthenic Syndrome (1989)
153 min | Drama
In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher has got it, and it's not much fun.
Director: Kira Muratova | Stars: Sergei Popov, Olga Antonova, Galina Zakhurdaeva, Natalya Buzko
Votes: 1,404
18. Vtorostepennye lyudi (2001)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
A woman tries to get rid of the body of her unloved husband who was accidentally killed by a doctor.
Director: Kira Muratova | Stars: Natalya Buzko, Sergey Chetvertkov, Nikolay Sednev, Zhan Daniel
Votes: 199
19. Half the Picture (2018)
TV-PG | 94 min | Documentary
A documentary about discriminatory hiring practices concerning women directors in Hollywood, and an inspiring conversation with those who have succeeded against all odds.
Director: Amy Adrion | Stars: Ava DuVernay, Brenda Chapman, Caroline Libresco, Catherine Hardwicke
Votes: 279 | Gross: $0.02M
20. The House Is Black (1963)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness", of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.
Director: Forugh Farrokhzad | Stars: Forugh Farrokhzad, Ebrahim Golestan, Hossein Mansouri
Votes: 5,567
21. The Man Who Surprised Everyone (2018)
TV-14 | 105 min | Drama
When a Siberian state forest guard discovers he has cancer and only two months left to live he chooses to take the identity of a woman as a way of fighting the disease.
Directors: Natasha Merkulova, Alexey Chupov | Stars: Evgeniy Tsyganov, Natalya Kudryashova, Yuriy Kuznetsov, Aleksey Filimonov
Votes: 968
22. Sticky Fingers (1988)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy
Two classical musician girls in NYC are short on money for rent etc. when a drug dealer stores a bag with them. It turns out to contain USD900,000. At first they panic.
Director: Catlin Adams | Stars: Helen Slater, Melanie Mayron, Adam Shaw, Danitra Vance
Votes: 511 | Gross: $0.21M
23. Silvia Prieto (1999)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
A woman in her late-twenties called Silvia Prieto wants to improve herself. Her discovery of a second person also called Silvia Prieto will change her life forever. Maybe not the changes she hoped for.
Director: Martín Rejtman | Stars: Rosario Bléfari, Valeria Bertuccelli, Vicentico, Marcelo Zanelli
Votes: 1,600
24. Camila (1984)
R | 105 min | Drama, Romance
In 1840's Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ... See full summary »
Director: María Luisa Bemberg | Stars: Susú Pecoraro, Imanol Arias, Héctor Alterio, Elena Tasisto
Votes: 1,451
25. Old Enough (1984)
PG | 92 min | Drama
Twelve-year-old Lonnie Sloan is a well-to-do New York rich kid and Karen Bruckner is the more ordinary, impoverished New York kid. They happen to meet one day on the street in their neighborhood and hit it off.
Director: Marisa Silver | Stars: Sarah Boyd, Rainbow Harvest, Neill Barry, Alyssa Milano
Votes: 918
26. An Autumn's Tale (1987)
98 min | Drama, Romance
Filmed in New York, story of naive young woman from Hong Kong who goes to New York to study. Street-wise cabbie cousin takes care of her in the big city.
Director: Mabel Cheung | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Cherie Chung, Danny Bak-Keung Chan, Gigi Suk Yee Wong
Votes: 2,348
27. Satisfaction (1988)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Justine Bateman rocks out as the leader of an all-girl band that struggles with men and drugs during a summer resort gig.
Director: Joan Freeman | Stars: Justine Bateman, Liam Neeson, Trini Alvarado, Scott Coffey
Votes: 3,858 | Gross: $8.25M
28. Old Boyfriends (1979)
R | 103 min | Drama
When her marriage falls apart, a psychiatrist seeks out the former boyfriends who left the biggest impacts on her life, mostly in negative ways.
Director: Joan Tewkesbury | Stars: Talia Shire, Richard Jordan, John Belushi, Keith Carradine
Votes: 600
29. Alma's Rainbow (1994)
85 min | Comedy, Drama
The life of teenager Rainbow Gold as she enters womanhood and navigates standards of beauty, self-image, and the rights women have over their bodies.
Director: Ayoka Chenzira | Stars: Kim Weston-Moran, Victoria Gabrielle Platt, Mizan Kirby, Lee Dobson
Votes: 201
30. Not a Pretty Picture (1976)
83 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama
Mixing narrative and documentary filming in a unique way, the story is autobiographical and is about a date rape, dissecting the characters and circumstances around it. By following the ... See full summary »
Director: Martha Coolidge | Stars: Reed Birney, James Carrington, John Fedinatz, Diana Gold
Votes: 58
31. Anthem (1997)
124 min | Documentary
A captivating cross-country adventure brought to life by two young women who take the road to explore and expose the American Dream. Armed with a Powerbook and a couple of cameras, ... See full synopsis »
Directors: Shainee Gabel, Kristin Hahn | Stars: Robert Redford, Michael Stipe, Studs Terkel, Winona LaDuke
Votes: 135
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