All time favourites
by chrystabelled | created - 05 Mar 2015 | updated - 15 Jan 2016 | PublicGone with wind Scruples-Judith Krantz Imitation of life-Douglas Sirk Sound of Music Roots North and South-the miniseries The Other Side of Midnight Memories of Midnight The Usual Suspects Wonder Woman The Wiz Queen Empire-Tv Series The Beverly Hillbillies Devious Maids Master of the Game A Woman of Substance Hold a Dream To be the Best Lace I'LL Take Manhattan
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1. Empire (2015–2020)
TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Music
A hip-hop mogul must choose a successor among his three sons who are battling for control over his multi-million dollar company, while his ex-wife schemes to reclaim what is hers.
Stars: Terrence Howard, Taraji P. Henson, Jussie Smollett, Bryshere Y. Gray
Votes: 41,075
It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This....If You Love Music And Movies
2. Scandal (2012–2018)
TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Thriller
A former White House Communications Director starts her own crisis management firm only to realize her clients are not the only ones with secrets.
Stars: Kerry Washington, Darby Stanchfield, Katie Lowes, Guillermo Diaz
Votes: 79,754
3. The Haves and the Have Nots (2013 Video)
Unrated | 131 min | Musical
Grandma Hattie Mae's family is poor and struggling to save her home. The Willis family is filthy rich. When Hattie's daughter, Rose, and son-in-law, Frank, go to work at the Willis estate, ... See full summary »
Director: Tyler Perry | Stars: Ben Peck, Terri Abney, Pat Asanti, Marcus Chase
Votes: 130
4. Wonder Woman (1975–1979)
TV-G | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The adventures of the greatest of the female superheroes.
Stars: Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner, Tom Kratochvil, Richard Eastham
Votes: 10,094
5. Devious Maids (2013–2016)
TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Four Latina maids with ambition and dreams of their own work for the rich and famous in Beverly Hills.
Stars: Ana Ortiz, Dania Ramirez, Roselyn Sanchez, Judy Reyes
Votes: 25,638
6. Lace (1984)
240 min | Drama
A young actress, thought to be easy and without morals, gathers three former schoolmates to find out who her mother is.
Stars: Bess Armstrong, Brooke Adams, Arielle Dombasle, Phoebe Cates
Votes: 1,528
7. I'll Take Manhattan (1987)
375 min | Drama
Maxi Amberville tries to save the magazine empire her father built, but her treacherous uncle stands in her way.
Stars: Valerie Bertinelli, Barry Bostwick, Francesca Annis, Jane Kaczmarek
Votes: 518
8. Gone with the Wind (1939)
Passed | 238 min | Drama, Romance, War
A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil
Votes: 334,500 | Gross: $198.68M
9. Imitation of Life (1959)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama
An aspiring white actress takes in an African American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner
Votes: 18,227 | Gross: $13.99M
10. Scruples (1980)
279 min | Drama, Romance
Billie, poor relative of a wealthy clan, looks for a purpose in life in Paris, is left by her lover Edouard, marries her New York boss Ellis who dies of a stroke. She opens a boutique in LA and weds gifted but troubled film director Vito.
Stars: Lindsay Wagner, Barry Bostwick, Marie-France Pisier, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Votes: 434
11. The Other Side of Midnight (1977)
R | 165 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A Greek tycoon's mistress tries to track down and find her ex-World War II lover.
Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Susan Sarandon, Raf Vallone
Votes: 1,944 | Gross: $24.65M
12. Memories of Midnight (1991)
183 min | Drama, Thriller
A beautiful amnesiac struggles to regain her memory, unaware of the danger she will face because of it.
Stars: Jane Seymour, Omar Sharif, Theodore Bikel, Joseph Campanella
Votes: 304
13. Roots (1977)
TV-14 | 74 min | Biography, Drama, History
A dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.
Stars: LeVar Burton, Robert Reed, John Amos, Louis Gossett Jr.
Votes: 18,890
14. The Sound of Music (1965)
G | 172 min | Biography, Drama, Family
A young novice is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn
Votes: 261,270 | Gross: $163.21M
15. North and South, Book I (1985)
TV-PG | 94 min | Drama, History, Romance
Two friends, one northern and one southern, struggle to maintain their friendship as events build towards the American Civil War.
Stars: Kirstie Alley, Georg Stanford Brown, David Carradine, Philip Casnoff
Votes: 11,904
16. The Usual Suspects (1995)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The sole survivor of a pier shoot-out tells the story of how a notorious criminal influenced the events that began with five criminals meeting in a seemingly random police lineup.
Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin
Votes: 1,146,275 | Gross: $23.34M
17. Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
R | 144 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T. Callahan
Votes: 4,848 | Gross: $6.03M
18. The Wiz (1978)
G | 134 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
An adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross
Votes: 17,061 | Gross: $21.05M
19. Queen (1993)
TV-14 | 282 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A plantation owner's son falls in love with a slave named Easter and together they have a Biracial daughter named Queen. As Queen grows up, she faces the struggle of trying to fit into the ... See full summary »
Stars: Ann-Margret, Patricia Clarkson, Tim Daly, Ossie Davis
Votes: 1,717
20.
Jackie Collins Presents (2004– )
Episode:
Hollywood Wives
(2004)
Documentary
Star: Amanda Luttrell Garrigus
21. The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971)
TV-G | 25 min | Comedy, Family
A nouveau-riche hillbilly family moves to Beverly Hills and shakes up the privileged society with their hayseed ways.
Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Donna Douglas, Irene Ryan, Max Baer Jr.
Votes: 11,042
22. A Woman of Substance (1984)
300 min | Drama, Romance
Emma Harte, a bright and ambitious servant girl, overcomes her impoverished beginnings in her quest to become a retailing magnate and one of the world's richest women.
Stars: Jenny Seagrove, Barry Bostwick, Deborah Kerr, Diane Baker
Votes: 1,132
23. Master of the Game (1984)
413 min | Drama
Elderly Kate Blackwell looks back at her family's life beginning with her Scottish father Jamie McGregor's journey to South Africa to make his fortune in diamonds. The family history is ... See full summary »
Stars: Dyan Cannon, Harry Hamlin, Ian Charleson, Cliff De Young
Votes: 532
24. Hold the Dream (1986–1987)
195 min | Drama, Romance
Four-part, four-hour follow-up to A Woman of Substance (1984) with Deborah Kerr, now playing Emma Harte at age eighty in the last winter of her life and dealing with her granddaughter Paula.
Stars: Jenny Seagrove, Deborah Kerr, Fiona Fullerton, Stephen Collins
Votes: 403
25. To Be the Best (1991– )
192 min | Drama
The Barbara Taylor Bradford trilogy that began with "A Woman of Substance"(1984) and continued with "Hold the Dream" (1986) ends with this epic tale. Paula feuds with her cousins as she fights to save her grandmother Emma's business.
Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Stephanie Beacham, Christopher Cazenove, Stuart Wilson
Votes: 262
26. Once in a Lifetime (1994 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 96 min | Drama, Romance
Millions adored Daphne Fields, for she shared their passion, their pain, their joy, and their sorrow. America's most popular novelist remained a closed book. She hides many secrets. The ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Miller | Stars: Lindsay Wagner, Barry Bostwick, Duncan Regehr, Amy Aquino
Votes: 411
27. Palomino (1991 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 95 min | Drama, Romance
After the break up of her marriage, photographer Samantha Taylor retreats to the sanctuary of friend Caroline Lord's California ranch. An excellent rider, Samantha is initially given a ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Miller | Stars: Lindsay Frost, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Taylor, Beau Gravitte
Votes: 431
28. Heartbeat (1993 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Adrian is a successful woman left by her husband when she gets pregnant. Her life is a mess until she meets Bill. Together with his children they can create a new family, if Adrian can forget her ex husband and the father of her child.
Director: Michael Miller | Stars: John Ritter, Polly Draper, Kevin Kilner, Michael Lembeck
Votes: 412
29. Family Album (1994)
TV-PG | 200 min | Drama, Romance
Based on Danielle Steel's novel of a celebrated actress-filmmaker whose family life is marked with love and strife.
Stars: Jaclyn Smith, Michael Ontkean, Joe Flanigan, Kristin Minter
Votes: 532
30. Zoya (1995 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 171 min | Drama, Romance
A young Russian Countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America.
Director: Richard A. Colla | Stars: Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Boxleitner, Denise Alexander, Don Henderson
Votes: 698
31. The Immigrants (1978 TV Movie)
240 min | Drama
A young Italian immigrant who loses everything in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake starts over again and builds up a shipping empire, but doesn't find the happiness he thought would come ... See full summary »
Director: Alan J. Levi | Stars: Stephen Macht, Sharon Gless, Aimee Eccles, Richard Anderson
Votes: 73
32. Lucky Chances (1990)
272 min | Drama, Romance
Based on the novels "Chances" and "Lucky" by Jackie Collins, this miniseries features the rise of Gino Santangelo in the Las Vegas casino industry, and his daughter Lucky's subsequent ... See full summary »
Stars: Vincent Irizarry, Michael Nader, Anne-Marie Johnson, Eric Braeden
Votes: 347
33. The Sands of Time (1992 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama
In Spain, three nuns and a band of revolutionaries are pursued by an evil army colonel.
Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: Deborah Raffin, Michael Nouri, Amanda Plummer, Elizabeth Gracen
Votes: 108
34.
Intimate Portrait (1990–2005)
Episode:
Lindsay Wagner
(1999)
TV-14 | Documentary, Biography
Stars: Meredith Vieira, Robert Urich, Lindsay Wagner, George Amiotte
Votes: 85
35. Think Like a Man Too (2014)
PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Romance
All the couples are back for a wedding in Las Vegas, but plans for a romantic weekend go awry when their various misadventures get them into some compromising situations that threaten to derail the big event.
Director: Tim Story | Stars: Kevin Hart, Gabrielle Union, Wendi McLendon-Covey, La La Anthony
Votes: 22,800 | Gross: $65.18M
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