more memorable films
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1. Gizmo! (1977)
G | 77 min | Comedy, Documentary
Compilation of man inventing strange contraptions in the 30's through 50's.
Director: Howard Smith | Star: Milt Moss
Votes: 455
2. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
G | 144 min | Action, Drama, History
The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.
Directors: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda, Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Jason Robards, Joseph Cotten
Votes: 37,242 | Gross: $29.55M
3. The Longest Day (1962)
G | 178 min | Action, Drama, History
The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
Directors: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck | Stars: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Richard Burton, Henry Fonda
Votes: 59,089 | Gross: $39.10M
4. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Approved | 218 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins
Votes: 314,572 | Gross: $44.82M
5. El Cid (1961)
Approved | 182 min | Biography, Drama, History
The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Geneviève Page
Votes: 15,716 | Gross: $26.62M
6. The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
Approved | 188 min | Drama, History, War
The death of Marcus Aurelius leads to a succession crisis, in which the deceased emperor's son, Commodus, demonstrates that he is unwilling to let anything undermine his claim to the Roman Empire.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason
Votes: 10,158 | Gross: $4.75M
7. 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: 183,228
8. Cleopatra (1963)
G | 192 min | Biography, Drama, History
Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.
Directors: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown
Votes: 37,432 | Gross: $57.78M
9. Intolerance (1916)
Passed | 163 min | Drama, History
The story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, F.A. Turner
Votes: 16,729 | Gross: $2.18M
10. The General (1926)
Passed | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.
Directors: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley
Votes: 98,214 | Gross: $1.03M
11. The Mystery of Picasso (1956)
PG | 78 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A filmed record of Pablo Picasso painting numerous canvases for the camera, allowing us to see his creative process at work.
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Pablo Picasso, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Claude Renoir
Votes: 2,701 | Gross: $0.27M
12. Mr. No Legs (1978)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama
Heads roll as two cops, Chuck and Andy, go against Mr. D'Angelo, the biggest drug dealer in Florida, and his ruthless enforcer Fred, who has no legs but does have two mean double barrel shotguns built into his wheelchair.
Director: Ricou Browning | Stars: Richard Jaeckel, Ron Slinker, Lloyd Bochner, Joie Chitwood
Votes: 569
13. Zorro (I) (1975)
G | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
In the New World, a new Spanish governor finds the province of Nueva Aragón under the iron fist of the corrupt Colonel Huerta and vows to bring justice under the guise of a masked avenger.
Director: Duccio Tessari | Stars: Alain Delon, Stanley Baker, Ottavia Piccolo, Moustache
Votes: 4,269
14. Young Warriors (1983)
R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young woman is gang raped and murdered in a California college town, sparking her brother Kevin to take up arms by night with a gang of like-minded vigilantes from his fraternity, ... See full summary »
Directors: Lawrence David Foldes, Deran Sarafian | Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Richard Roundtree, Lynda Day George, James Van Patten
Votes: 609 | Gross: $0.24M
15. Young Guns (1988)
R | 107 min | Action, Drama, Western
A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.
Director: Christopher Cain | Stars: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen
Votes: 68,095 | Gross: $45.66M
16. 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: 39,063 | Gross: $44.14M
17. You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)
PG | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as guards for a secret transport.
Director: Peter Collinson | Stars: Tony Curtis, Charles Bronson, Michèle Mercier, Patrick Magee
Votes: 1,666
18. Christmas Evil (1980)
R | 100 min | Horror, Thriller
A toy factory worker, mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work, and embarks on a Yuletide killing spree.
Director: Lewis Jackson | Stars: Brandon Maggart, Jeffrey DeMunn, Dianne Hull, Andy Fenwick
Votes: 8,575
19. Year of the Comet (1992)
PG-13 | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
An auctioneer's daughter and a rich buyer's emissary fall for each other while trying to keep a rare wine out of the hands of evil doers.
Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Penelope Ann Miller, Tim Daly, Louis Jourdan, Art Malik
Votes: 1,780 | Gross: $2.79M
20. The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)
Unrated | 94 min | Comedy, Crime
In London, Australian gangsters disguised as Bobbies rob the local criminals, making the panicked British mobsters seek an alliance with Scotland Yard in order to eliminate the foreign competition and return things to "normal".
Director: Cliff Owen | Stars: Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries, Bernard Cribbins, Davy Kaye
Votes: 2,325
21. The Wrong Box (1966)
Approved | 105 min | Comedy, Crime
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other, or can be made to have seemed to do so.
Director: Bryan Forbes | Stars: John Mills, Michael Caine, Ralph Richardson, Peter Cook
Votes: 4,018
22. Wrongfully Accused (1998)
PG-13 | 87 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
Ryan Harrison is framed for murder and must prove himself innocent by finding a mysterious one-eyed, one-armed, one-legged man after escaping from a bus accident on the way to jail.
Director: Pat Proft | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Richard Crenna, Kelly LeBrock, Melinda McGraw
Votes: 29,303 | Gross: $9.62M
23. Wrong Is Right (1982)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
A TV reporter finds himself in the middle of an Arab leader buying two portable nukes, terrorists, arms dealer, a reporter/CIA spy killed, a US president ordering a K-I-L-L etc.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Sean Connery, George Grizzard, Robert Conrad, Katharine Ross
Votes: 2,265 | Gross: $3.38M
24. The World's Greatest Lover (1977)
PG | 89 min | Comedy
A neurotic baker travels to Hollywood to attend a talent search for an actor to rival the great Valentino. Although not an actor, through blind luck he succeeds, to a certain degree.
Director: Gene Wilder | Stars: Gene Wilder, Carol Kane, Dom DeLuise, Fritz Feld
Votes: 2,215 | Gross: $21.58M
25. The Legend of Sea Wolf (1975)
PG | 92 min | Adventure
A tale of the brutal sea captain of the Ghost who is ruthless with his crew. It becomes more than they can tolerate.
Director: Giuseppe Vari | Stars: Chuck Connors, Giuseppe Pambieri, Barbara Bach, Rik Battaglia
Votes: 161
26. Without a Clue (1988)
PG | 107 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A drunken Sherlock Holmes is really just a cover for the real detective, Dr. Watson.
Director: Thom Eberhardt | Stars: Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones, Lysette Anthony
Votes: 11,118 | Gross: $8.54M
27. Willie Dynamite (1974)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama
A social worker tries to get a pimp to change his ways.
Director: Gilbert Moses | Stars: Roscoe Orman, Diana Sands, Thalmus Rasulala, Joyce Walker
Votes: 1,313 | Gross: $0.48M
28. 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: 2,014 | Gross: $0.28M
29. Black Jack (1972)
GP | 87 min | Comedy
Three anti-war activists hijack a B-52 bomber.
Director: William T. Naud | Stars: Georg Stanford Brown, Brandon De Wilde, Keenan Wynn, Tim O'Connor
Votes: 72
30. Wild in the Streets (1968)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A young man gains significant political influence as the leader of a counterculture rock band with his rallying cry of voting rights for teenagers.
Director: Barry Shear | Stars: Christopher Jones, Shelley Winters, Diane Varsi, Hal Holbrook
Votes: 2,208
31. Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
NC-17 | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A young female landowner in 1840s Jamaica marries a just-arrived Englishman to avoid losing her property. All seems to be perfect, love arises, and happiness is on the way, but she is ... See full summary »
Director: John Duigan | Stars: Karina Lombard, Nathaniel Parker, Rachel Ward, Michael York
Votes: 2,211 | Gross: $1.61M
32. The Wild Angels (1966)
R | 93 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
The "Angels", a San Pedro motorcycle gang, parties in the Coachella Valley's Palm Springs Indian Canyons, California, and wreaks havoc with the local police.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd
Votes: 3,324
33. Perdita Durango (1997)
R | 129 min | Action, Crime, Horror
A psychotic criminal couple kidnaps a random teenage couple. The woman rapes the male captive, and lets him watch his lover being raped by the man. They then plan to sacrifice the couple.
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Rosie Perez, Javier Bardem, Harley Cross, Aimee Graham
Votes: 9,857
34. Why Would I Lie? (1980)
PG | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
Cletus is a compulsive liar, though he prefers the term 'fabrication' to 'lie.' When he becomes a social worker, he's assigned the case of a boy named Jeorge (with a 'J') who was taken from... See full summary »
Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Treat Williams, Lisa Eichhorn, Gabriel Macht, Susan Heldfond
Votes: 306 | Gross: $1.18M
35. The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz (1968)
Unrated | 113 min | Comedy
A beautiful East German Olympic hopeful pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall to freedom.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Elke Sommer, Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, Joey Forman
Votes: 302
36. The Wicked Lady (1983)
R | 98 min | Adventure, Drama
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Faye Dunaway, Alan Bates, John Gielgud, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 1,446 | Gross: $0.72M
37. Wicked, Wicked (1973)
PG | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A tongue-in-cheek psycho movie in "Duo-vision." The entire feature employs the split-screen technique used in parts of Brian De Palma's "Sisters" that same year. As a handyman at a seacoast... See full summary »
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: David Bailey, Tiffany Bolling, Randolph Roberts, Scott Brady
Votes: 683
38. White of the Eye (1987)
R | 110 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Somebody's killing rich married women in their homes - latest in a rich desert community outside Tucson. A married sound expert is prime suspect.
Director: Donald Cammell | Stars: David Keith, Cathy Moriarty, Alan Rosenberg, Art Evans
Votes: 2,998 | Gross: $0.23M
39. Whiffs (1975)
PG | 91 min | Comedy, Crime
A private applies to be a test subject for the military's new chemical weapons program. After many tests he decides to use his knowledge on chemical warfare to rob banks. He will need a partner, though.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: Elliott Gould, Eddie Albert, Harry Guardino, Godfrey Cambridge
Votes: 242
40. Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)
R | 99 min | Biography, Comedy
Semi-biographical film based on the experiences of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
Director: Art Linson | Stars: Peter Boyle, Bill Murray, Bruno Kirby, Rene Auberjonois
Votes: 12,679 | Gross: $6.66M
41. Where There's Life (1947)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Thriller
The American son of an Eastern European monarch wounded in an assassination attempt becomes a target for a terrorist organization.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Bob Hope, Signe Hasso, William Bendix, George Coulouris
Votes: 514
42. What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)
PG | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A Japanese James Bond -esque spy flick reused and redubbed into the plot of a secret agent searching to uncover a recipe for the world's greatest egg salad in Woody Allen's directorial debut.
Directors: Woody Allen, Senkichi Taniguchi | Stars: Woody Allen, The Lovin' Spoonful, Frank Buxton, Louise Lasser
Votes: 9,998
43. Welcome to Arrow Beach (1973)
R | 85 min | Horror
A hippie girl wandering on a California beach is taken in by a Korean War veteran who lives in a nearby mansion with his sister. The girl soon begins to suspect that the mansion is home to some very strange goings-on.
Director: Laurence Harvey | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Joanna Pettet, Stuart Whitman, John Ireland
Votes: 429
44. The Way of the Gun (2000)
R | 119 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother carrying a baby for a powerful, shady man.
Director: Christopher McQuarrie | Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro, Juliette Lewis, Taye Diggs
Votes: 35,240 | Gross: $6.06M
45. Way Down East (1920)
Passed | 145 min | Drama, Romance
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Mrs. David Landau, Lowell Sherman
Votes: 5,901 | Gross: $4.50M
46. Warning Shot (1966)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
During a stakeout, an L.A. cop kills a doctor who presumably pulled a gun but the coroner's inquest finds no gun, forcing the cop to look for it to clear his name.
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: David Janssen, Ed Begley, Keenan Wynn, Sam Wanamaker
Votes: 1,021
47. The Warrior and the Slave Girl (1958)
88 min | Adventure
Marcus Numidius (Ettore Manni), a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators' revolt, captures the rebels' popular leader, Aselepius (Georges Marchal). Princess Amira (Gianna ... See full summary »
Director: Vittorio Cottafavi | Stars: Gianna Maria Canale, Ettore Manni, Mara Cruz, Lina Rosales
Votes: 199
48. War Italian Style (1965)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy
In May 1943, two American soldiers, Joe and Frank, of Italian descent are searching the North African desert for a German general called Von Kassler, when they are captured by Von Kassler ... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Scattini | Stars: Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Buster Keaton, Fred Clark
Votes: 245
49. Waiting for the Light (1990)
PG | 94 min | Comedy
It is not about Aunt Z moving her niece and family....The niece, Garr, moves her family away from the city. The kids enjoy playing tricks, learned from Aunt Z (MacLaine). The kids get ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Monger | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Teri Garr, Louis Guzzo, Colin Baumgartner
Votes: 584 | Gross: $0.81M
50. Waking Life (2001)
R | 99 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
A man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Trevor Jack Brooks, Lorelei Linklater, Wiley Wiggins
Votes: 66,952 | Gross: $2.89M
51. Walkabout (1971)
GP | 100 min | Adventure, Drama
Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.
Director: Nicolas Roeg | Stars: Jenny Agutter, David Gulpilil, Luc Roeg, John Meillon
Votes: 27,359 | Gross: $0.02M
52. Wacko (1982)
PG | 87 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and obsessed detective Dick Harbinger are on the lookout for the killer to reappear during the annual Halloween Pumpkin Prom.
Director: Greydon Clark | Stars: Joe Don Baker, Stella Stevens, George Kennedy, Julia Duffy
Votes: 1,435
53. Viva Knievel! (1977)
PG | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
He's powered his Harley over cars, trucks, lions, infernos and plummeted headlong into a canyon. But if the mob has its way, his next incredible leap will land him six feet under.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Evel Knievel, Gene Kelly, Lauren Hutton, Red Buttons
Votes: 1,365
54. Viva Max (1969)
G | 93 min | Comedy
In the 1960s, a screwy Mexican General and his troops cross into Texas to re-capture the Alamo from the Gringos but they face opposition from the local police, the National Guard and the U.S. State Department.
Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Pamela Tiffin, Jonathan Winters, John Astin
Votes: 553
55. Tepepa (1969)
R | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A Mexican revolutionary contends with a tenacious police chief, a corrupt President he helped put in power, and an English doctor who wants him dead for personal reasons.
Director: Giulio Petroni | Stars: Tomas Milian, Orson Welles, John Steiner, José Torres
Votes: 1,273
56. Anche gli angeli tirano di destro (1974)
111 min | Comedy, Crime
Sonny, a New York wise guy, dreams of becoming a feared gangster. He runs errands for the mob with some success, as a result the "Don" gives him, as a reward, the control of Mulberry Street, which also faces a boxing gym....
Director: Enzo Barboni | Stars: Giuliano Gemma, Ricky Bruch, Laura Becherelli, Dominic Barto
Votes: 215
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