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1. They Knew What They Wanted (1940)
Approved | 96 min | Drama, Romance
While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she accepts his marriage proposal.
Director: Garson Kanin | Stars: Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton, William Gargan, Harry Carey
Votes: 494
2. Winged Victory (1944)
Approved | 130 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Pinkie Scariano, Alan Ross and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the ... See full summary »
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Mark Daniels, Edmond O'Brien, Lon McCallister, Don Taylor
Votes: 228
3. Kiss of Death (1947)
Approved | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A crook arrested for a jewelry heist initially refuses to give up his accomplices, but he changes his mind once his wife dies under worrying circumstances.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark
Votes: 9,577
4. The Gunfighter (1950)
Approved | 85 min | Western
Notorious gunfighter Jimmy Ringo rides into town to find his true love, who doesn't want to see him. He hasn't come looking for trouble, but trouble finds him around every corner.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell, Jean Parker
Votes: 12,533
5. Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Det. Sgt. Mark Dixon wants to be something his old man wasn't: a guy on the right side of the law. Will Dixon's vicious nature get the better of him?
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill, Bert Freed
Votes: 9,970
6. Halls of Montezuma (1951)
Approved | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A company of Marines races against the clock to find a Japanese rocket base.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Reginald Gardiner, Robert Wagner
Votes: 2,956
7. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
PG | 122 min | Drama
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden
Votes: 114,399 | Gross: $8.00M
8. The Sellout (1952)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
During the 1950s, a small-town newspaper editor and a state assistant attorney-general fight corrupt local officials from one rotten county.
Director: Gerald Mayer | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Audrey Totter, Paula Raymond
Votes: 675
9. Diplomatic Courier (1952)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A US State Department courier tangles with Soviet agents and seductive women in post WW2 Europe.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal, Stephen McNally, Hildegard Knef
Votes: 1,429
10. Operation Secret (1952)
Approved | 108 min | Drama, War
While under attack by German forces, a French army unit discovers there is a traitor in their midst, feeding the Germans information.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Steve Cochran, Phyllis Thaxter, Karl Malden
Votes: 252
11. Ruby Gentry (1952)
82 min | Drama, Romance
A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston, Karl Malden, Tom Tully
Votes: 1,766 | Gross: $3.85M
12. I Confess (1953)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A priest, who comes under suspicion for murder, cannot clear his name without breaking the seal of the confessional.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, Brian Aherne
Votes: 23,277
13. Take the High Ground! (1953)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, War
In 1953, at Fort Bliss, Texas, two former Korean War combat veterans work as drill sergeants and fall in love with the same woman.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Richard Widmark, Karl Malden, Elaine Stewart, Carleton Carpenter
Votes: 1,110
14. Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
When several women are found mutilated and murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon it becomes apparent that it is someone (or something) stronger and deadlier than a human.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Karl Malden, Claude Dauphin, Patricia Medina, Steve Forrest
Votes: 1,128 | Gross: $1.45M
15. On the Waterfront (1954)
Approved | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger
Votes: 165,009 | Gross: $9.60M
16. Baby Doll (1956)
Approved | 114 min | Comedy, Drama
An immature, naive teenage bride holds her anxious husband at bay while flirting with an amorous Sicilian farmer.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach, Mildred Dunnock
Votes: 8,296
17. Fear Strikes Out (1957)
Approved | 100 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore, Adam Williams
Votes: 2,160
18. Bombers B-52 (1957)
Passed | 106 min | Drama, Romance, War
Sgt. Chuck Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Marsha Hunt, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Votes: 919
19. The Hanging Tree (1959)
Approved | 107 min | Western
Unusual western about a doctor with a dark past, whose life is complicated and ultimately redeemed by a young thief, and a pretty Swiss immigrant whom he nurses back to health.
Directors: Delmer Daves, Karl Malden, Vincent Sherman | Stars: Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden, George C. Scott
Votes: 4,756
20. Pollyanna (1960)
Approved | 134 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.
Director: David Swift | Stars: Jane Wyman, Hayley Mills, Richard Egan, Karl Malden
Votes: 11,350
21. The Great Impostor (1960)
Approved | 113 min | Comedy, Drama
Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. is a versatile man who gets his kicks out of impersonating a marine, a monk, a navy surgeon and a prison warden, eventually getting in trouble with the law for it.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Tony Curtis, Karl Malden, Edmond O'Brien, Arthur O'Connell
Votes: 1,708
22. One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
Not Rated | 141 min | Drama, Western
After robbing a Mexican bank, Dad Longworth takes the loot and leaves his partner Rio to be captured, but Rio escapes and searches for Dad in California.
Director: Marlon Brando | Stars: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Pina Pellicer, Katy Jurado
Votes: 13,281 | Gross: $9.37M
23. Parrish (1961)
Passed | 138 min | Drama
In the Connecticut River Valley, Parrish McLean and his mother are newly employed by the Sala Post tobacco farm that is engaged in a competition war with the neighboring Judd Raike tobacco corporation.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Troy Donahue, Karl Malden, Dean Jagger
Votes: 1,208
24. All Fall Down (1962)
Approved | 111 min | Drama
Ralph (Karl Malden) and Annabell Willart (Dame Angela Lansbury) are a feuding couple who are constantly bickering over their worthless, good-for-nothing son Berry-Berry (Warren Beatty). ... See full summary »
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty, Karl Malden, Angela Lansbury
Votes: 2,315
25. Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Not Rated | 147 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Neville Brand
Votes: 19,314
26. Gypsy (1962)
Approved | 143 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Paul Wallace
Votes: 6,998 | Gross: $13.01M
27. How the West Was Won (1962)
G | 164 min | Adventure, War, Western
A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.
Directors: John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe | Stars: James Stewart, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda
Votes: 23,342 | Gross: $46.50M
28. Come Fly with Me (1963)
Approved | 109 min | Comedy, Romance
Three flight attendants combine their work crossing the Atlantic with searching for rich, handsome men to marry.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Dolores Hart, Hugh O'Brian, Karlheinz Böhm, Pamela Tiffin
Votes: 819
29. Dead Ringer (1963)
Approved | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The working-class twin sister of a callous, wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes her identity. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.
Director: Paul Henreid | Stars: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford, Philip Carey
Votes: 6,439
30. Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
PG | 154 min | Drama, History, Western
The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Sal Mineo
Votes: 6,453
31. The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
TV-14 | 102 min | Drama
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
Directors: Norman Jewison, Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Steve McQueen, Ann-Margret, Edward G. Robinson, Karl Malden
Votes: 18,251 | Gross: $15.26M
32. Nevada Smith (1966)
Not Rated | 128 min | Drama, Western
A half-American Indian and half-white teenager evolves into a hardened killer as he tracks down his parents' murderers.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy
Votes: 9,114 | Gross: $14.17M
33. Murderers' Row (1966)
Approved | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Handsome top-secret American agent Matt Helm must recover a laser-weapons inventor who has been kidnapped by arch-villain Julian Wall.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Dean Martin, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Camilla Sparv
Votes: 2,468
34. Hotel (1967)
GP | 124 min | Drama
A historical New Orleans hotel struggles to financially survive while the dramas of its various guests unfold.
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Rod Taylor, Catherine Spaak, Karl Malden, Melvyn Douglas
Votes: 1,659
35. The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967)
Approved | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A young man from Boston heads west to join the California gold rush with the hopes of restoring his family fortune, but his dedicated butler sets out to find him and bring him home.
Director: James Neilson | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Pleshette, Karl Malden, Harry Guardino
Votes: 1,310
36. Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
British spy-turned-detective Harry Palmer stumbles upon an oil tycoon's plot to overthrow Communism using a supercomputer.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley, Oscar Homolka
Votes: 6,017
37. Blue (1968)
TV-14 | 113 min | Romance, Western
A young American who was raised by Mexican bandits, now must choose sides when his Mexican gang carries out violent murderous raids into U.S. border towns.
Director: Silvio Narizzano | Stars: Terence Stamp, Joanna Pettet, Karl Malden, Stathis Giallelis
Votes: 605
38. Hot Millions (1968)
G | 106 min | Comedy, Crime
Paroled London fraudster Marcus Pendleton poses as a computer specialist in order to work for an insurance company that entirely relies on its corporate server.
Director: Eric Till | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, Karl Malden, Bob Newhart
Votes: 2,277
39. Patton (1970)
GP | 172 min | Biography, Drama, War
The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young, Michael Strong
Votes: 107,992 | Gross: $61.70M
40. The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
GP | 112 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Two journalists try to solve a series of murders connected to a pharmaceutical company's secret experiments, becoming targets of the killer themselves.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, Pier Paolo Capponi
Votes: 13,033
41. Wild Rovers (1971)
GP | 136 min | Drama, Western
Tired of cow-punching for a living, two Montana cowboys rob a bank and flee but their employer's sons chase after them.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: William Holden, Ryan O'Neal, Karl Malden, Lynn Carlin
Votes: 2,013 | Gross: $0.28M
42. Summertime Killer (1972)
PG | 110 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A six-year-old boy witnesses mobsters beat his father to death. Twenty years later, the now-grown boy begins to track down and eliminate the men who did it, determined to wipe out the ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi | Stars: Karl Malden, Olivia Hussey, Christopher Mitchum, Raf Vallone
Votes: 458
43. Captains Courageous (1977 TV Movie)
100 min | Adventure
A spoiled little rich boy learns what life is really like after he falls overboard in the middle of the ocean and is picked up by a crusty old sea captain.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Karl Malden, Jonathan Kahn, Johnny Doran, Neville Brand
Votes: 97
44. Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
PG | 114 min | Action, Adventure
An extension of the previous film, wherein a group of adventurers return to the overturned ship to seek several fortunes.
Director: Irwin Allen | Stars: Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas, Peter Boyle
Votes: 5,870
45. Meteor (1979)
PG | 108 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
The U.S. must join forces with the U.S.S.R. in order to destroy a gigantic asteroid heading straight for Earth.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith
Votes: 8,219
46. Word of Honor (1981 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Thriller, Drama
A reporter refuses to reveal his source in the case of a young girl's murder. As a result, he and his family are shunned by the residents of their small town. Virtually nobody comes to his ... See full summary »
Director: Mel Damski | Stars: Karl Malden, Rue McClanahan, Ron Silver, Largo Woodruff
Votes: 121
47. Miracle on Ice (1981 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 150 min | Drama, Sport
The fact-based story of how the U. S. Olympic hockey team beat the Soviets at the 1980 Lake Placid, N. Y., winter Olympics, then went on to win the gold medal.
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Karl Malden, Andrew Stevens, Steve Guttenberg, Jerry Houser
Votes: 671
48. Twilight Time (1982)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Family
An elderly man, returning to Yugoslavia after 20 years in America, is saddled with the upbringing of his two grandchildren in a small farming village.
Director: Goran Paskaljevic | Stars: Karl Malden, Jodi Thelen, Damien Nash, Mia Roth
Votes: 229
49. The Sting II (1983)
PG | 101 min | Comedy, Crime
A team of cons is planning a new scam involving betting on a boxing match but one of its past victims aims to exact revenge by eliminating the whole group.
Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Jackie Gleason, Mac Davis, Teri Garr, Karl Malden
Votes: 2,450 | Gross: $6.35M
50. With Intent to Kill (1984 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
A high school football hero Bo Reinecker tries to piece together the events leading up to murder of his girl friend Lisa Nolen. Claiming to have experienced a total blackout, Bo is ... See full summary »
Director: Mike Robe | Stars: Karl Malden, Paul Sorvino, Shirley Knight, Timothy Patrick Murphy
Votes: 92
51. Fatal Vision (1984)
TV-14 | 181 min | Crime, Drama, History
A retiree spends nine years relentlessly seeking to prove that his son-in-law, a former Green Beret Army doctor, murdered his pregnant wife and two daughters.
Stars: Karl Malden, Eva Marie Saint, Barry Newman, Gary Cole
Votes: 1,137
52. Alice in Wonderland (II) (1985)
TV-PG | 94 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Alice is in Looking Glass Land, where she meets many creatures and attempts to avoid the Jabberwocky (Tom McLoughlin), a monster that appears due to her being afraid.
Stars: Natalie Gregory, Sheila Allen, Red Buttons, Anthony Newley
Votes: 3,344
53. Nuts (1987)
R | 116 min | Drama, Thriller
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Maureen Stapleton, Karl Malden
Votes: 7,594 | Gross: $30.95M
54. My Father, My Son (1988 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, War
When an admiral orders the use of Agent Orange in Vetnam, he has no idea what deadly consequences this will have on his son.
Director: Jeff Bleckner | Stars: Keith Carradine, Karl Malden, Margaret Klenck, Michael Horton
Votes: 82
55. The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro (1989 TV Movie)
95 min | Drama
The story of the hijacking of the Italian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Liberation Front, in 1985, who demanded the release of several Palestinians incarcerated in ... See full summary »
Director: Robert L. Collins | Stars: Karl Malden, Lee Grant, E.G. Marshall, Vera Miles
Votes: 138
56. Call Me Anna (1990 TV Movie)
97 min | Biography, Drama
Actress Patty Duke portrays herself in this autobiographical film that details her long-time struggle with mental illness.
Director: Gilbert Cates | Stars: Patty Duke, Timothy Carhart, Howard Hesseman, Deborah May
Votes: 187
57. Absolute Strangers (1991 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
A husband tries to keep his comatose wife alive by allowing doctors to terminate her pregnancy. Hearing about this, anti-abortion protesters start a legal campaign to gain legal custody of the fetus.
Director: Gilbert Cates | Stars: Henry Winkler, Richard Kiley, Karl Malden, Patty Duke
Votes: 204
58. Back to the Streets of San Francisco (1992 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
SFPD Captain Mike Stone investigates the disappearance of his old partner Steve Keller.
Director: Mel Damski | Stars: Karl Malden, Debrah Farentino, Conor O'Farrell, Carl Lumbly
Votes: 224
59. They've Taken Our Children: The Chowchilla Kidnapping (1993 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 89 min | Crime, Drama
In a small California town, three young men decide to make money by hijacking a school bus full of children and demanding a ransom for the safe return of the kids.
Director: Vern Gillum | Stars: Karl Malden, Tim Ransom, Travis Fine, Tom Hodges
Votes: 314
60. The Streets of the Invisibles (2011)
14 min | Animation, Short, Crime
Mike Stone (Karl Malden) and Steve Keller (Michael Douglas) are back on today's streets to catch a homicidal maniac who should have been incarcerated thirty years ago. The famous police ... See full summary »
Director: Remo Rauscher | Stars: Karl Malden, Michael Douglas
Votes: 14
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