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51. Gidget Grows Up (1969 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 75 min | Comedy

After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The letters she had been writing to her ... See full summary »

Director: James Sheldon | Stars: Karen Valentine, Edward Mulhare, Paul Petersen, Warner Anderson

Votes: 280

52. In Search of America (1971 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama

A college dropout convinces his family to re-examine its goals and gets them to leave it all for a cross-country odyssey in a 1928 Greyhound bus.

Director: Paul Bogart | Stars: Carl Betz, Vera Miles, Ruth McDevitt, Jeff Bridges

Votes: 182

53. After the Honeymoon (1971 TV Movie)

30 min | Comedy

In this proposed spin-off of the long-running My Three Sons (1960) series, Robbie (Don Grady) and Katie Douglas (Tina Cole) have moved to San Francisco with their three children and are ... See full summary »

Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Don Grady, Tina Cole, Pat Carroll, Richard X. Slattery

54. Chamber of Horrors (1966)

Unrated | 80 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

A one-handed madman uses various detachable devices as murder weapons to gain revenge on those he believes have wronged him.

Director: Hy Averback | Stars: Patrick O'Neal, Cesare Danova, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Laura Devon

Votes: 1,432

55. Annihilator (1986 TV Movie)

99 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Humanoid killer robots stalk a newspaperman who has knowledge of their existence. One of the robots is made to look like his girlfriend.

Director: Michael Chapman | Stars: Mark Lindsay Chapman, Susan Blakely, Lisa Blount, Brion James

Votes: 461

56. Spaced (2008 TV Movie)

Comedy

A pair of strangers pose as a married couple in order to rent an apartment. An American version of the British TV show "Spaced".

Director: Charles Stone III | Stars: Josh Lawson, Sara Rue, Federico Dordei, Lauren Ashton Baker

Votes: 439

57. Tarzan in Manhattan (1989 TV Movie)

94 min | Action, Adventure

Tarzan goes to New York to rescue the chimp Cheetah, who has been captured by an evil animal experimenter. There, he teams up with Jane, a cab driver and daughter of an ex-cop private eye, who help Tarzan free Cheetah and his friends.

Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: Joe Lara, Kim Crosby, James Medina, Jan-Michael Vincent

Votes: 550

58. Alexander the Great (1963 TV Movie)

50 min | Drama

As Alexander the Great prepares for his battle against his great rival, King Darius III, he must also face down his own war weary army and internal rivals.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: William Shatner, Adam West, John Cassavetes, John Doucette

Votes: 201

59. Fear No Evil (1969 TV Movie)

Unrated | 98 min | Horror, Thriller

A psychiatrist investigates a man possessed by a spirit living in an antique mirror that can bring dead people back to life.

Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Louis Jourdan, Lynda Day George, Carroll O'Connor, Bradford Dillman

Votes: 423

60. The Mark of Zorro (1974 TV Movie)

Approved | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Western

When Don Diego returns to California only to find the people overrun and overtaxed by corrupt politicians, he takes matters into his own hands as the masked crusader Zorro.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Frank Langella, Ricardo Montalban, Gilbert Roland, Louise Sorel

Votes: 694

61. In the Fold (1996 TV Movie)

Unrated | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A crew of freshly graduated space navy cadets find themselves fighting with opponents from breakaway Earth colonies after their commanding officers are killed in an attack.

Directors: Jim Johnston, E.W. Swackhamer | Stars: Jay Underwood, Jennifer Bransford, Chris Conrad, Tembi Locke

Votes: 549

62. The People (1972 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 74 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A teacher takes a job in a small remote community and finds the inhabitants to be strange with unsettling rules imposed on even her young students. On learning more about the people she finds that things are not at all what they seemed.

Director: John Korty | Stars: Kim Darby, William Shatner, Diane Varsi, Dan O'Herlihy

Votes: 690

63. Agent for H.A.R.M. (1966)

Passed | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Secret agent tries to stop a scientist who has devised a bacterium that devours the body from within.

Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Peter Mark Richman, Wendell Corey, Carl Esmond, Barbara Bouchet

Votes: 1,540

64. Baffled (1972 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller

A US racing champion is haunted by intense visions of an American woman in some kind of danger in a English mansion. A British ESP and occult expert believes that his visions will really happen and asks him to help her investigate them.

Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Leonard Nimoy, Susan Hampshire, Rachel Roberts, Vera Miles

Votes: 445

65. The Sixth Gun (2013 TV Movie)

60 min | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Failed pilot adaptation of an eponymous comic book set in the old west about six cursed guns that give dark powers and are tied to its owners until their deaths. A heroine and an antihero are after the sixth gun that grants visions.

Director: Jeffrey Reiner | Stars: Pedro Pascal, Michiel Huisman, Graham McTavish, James Le Gros

Votes: 58

66. Legally Blonde (2003 TV Movie)

Comedy, Romance

Harvard Law student Elle Woods is under-estimated by her teachers and peers. She faces off with Keaton, both in class and trying to get an apartment.

Director: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld | Stars: Jennifer Hall, Gelbert Coloma, Paul Korver, David Moscow

Votes: 165

67. Time Travelers (1976 TV Movie)

78 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

During an outbreak of a contagious disease in 1976, two scientists are sent back in time to 1871, when a Chicago doctor apparently had the cure for it.

Director: Alexander Singer | Stars: Sam Groom, Tom Hallick, Francine York, Booth Colman

Votes: 534

68. The Man Who Fell to Earth (1987 TV Movie)

100 min | Action, Romance, Sci-Fi

An alien lands on Earth and decides that he needs to take a job in order to raise money to build a spaceship so he can get back to his home planet.

Director: Bobby Roth | Stars: Lewis Smith, James Laurenson, Robert Picardo, Bruce McGill

Votes: 383

69. Chameleons (1989 TV Movie)

90 min | Action, Comedy

In this failed television series pilot from the mind of Glen A. Larson, Shelley (Crystal Bernard), a slightly-crazy heiress, discovers that her eccentric millionaire uncle Jason Carr (... See full summary »

Director: Glen A. Larson | Stars: Crystal Bernard, Marcus Gilbert, Mary Bergman, Richard Burgi

Votes: 91

70. Dark Intruder (1965)

Approved | 59 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Police call in occult expert to help solve series of murders.

Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Peter Mark Richman, Judi Meredith, Gilbert Green

Votes: 475

71. The Wonderful Maladys (2010 TV Movie)

Comedy, Drama

Set in Gotham, the story revolves around the dysfunctional lives of three adult siblings who lost their parents at a young age.

Director: Alan Taylor | Stars: Adam Driver, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Adam Scott, Molly Parker

Votes: 143

72. Berlin Affair (1970 TV Movie)

120 min | Drama, Thriller

Spy suspense drama set in 1960's Berlin. Intrigue and double-cross lead Killian on a twisting path through love and loss.

Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Darren McGavin, Fritz Weaver, Brian Kelly, Claude Dauphin

Votes: 67

73. Hollywood Confidential (1997 TV Movie)

R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A former LA cop runs a top-flight private detective agency that caters to spoiled Hollywood types.

Director: Reynaldo Villalobos | Stars: Edward James Olmos, Rick Aiello, Angela Alvarado, Christine Harnos

Votes: 364

74. Savage (1973 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 73 min | Drama, Thriller

A TV reporter investigates compromising photographs of a nominee to the Supreme Court.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Will Geer, Paul Richards

Votes: 418

75. Adventures in Babysitting (1989 TV Movie)

30 min | Comedy

After their trip into the big city in the movie Chris once again is asked to baby sit Brad, Sara and Daryl for the night when a simple trip to the store turns into a hostage situation. ... See full summary »

Director: Joel Zwick | Stars: Jennifer Guthrie, Joey Lawrence, Courtney Peldon, Brian Austin Green

Votes: 207

76. The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire (1981 TV Movie)

96 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

The hero is given his mentor's bow (the Heartbow) which chooses its new owner when passed on. It fires arrows that blow up like grenades, but can only be wielded by the one chosen to wield ... See full summary »

Director: Nicholas Corea | Stars: Lane Caudell, Belinda Bauer, Victor Campos, Kabir Bedi

Votes: 457

77. Doorways (1993 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 120 min | Sci-Fi

Cat, a fugitive from a parallel Earth ruled by aliens, lands on "our" Earth in the middle of a freeway, causing an accident. She is slightly injured, and wakes up in the emergency room of a... See full summary »

Director: Peter Werner | Stars: George Newbern, Anne Le Guernec, Robert Knepper, Kurtwood Smith

Votes: 331

78. The Hanged Man (1974 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 73 min | Western

Miraculously still alive after his hanging, gunfighter James Devlin defends a young widow's farm from a vicious land grabber.

Director: Michael Caffey | Stars: Steve Forrest, Dean Jagger, Will Geer, Sharon Acker

Votes: 420

79. The Letters (1973 TV Movie)

74 min | Drama

Story of people whose lives were changed because of a year-long delay in the delivery of some letters.

Directors: Paul Krasny, Gene Nelson | Stars: John Forsythe, Pamela Franklin, Ida Lupino, Dina Merrill

Votes: 267

80. Monsignor Martinez (2000 TV Movie)

Action, Comedy

A spin off of the animated sitcom King of the Hill, this would have been a more action-focused live-action series about the in-universe fictional character, Monsignor Martinez, and his adventures.

Director: Mike Judge | Stars: Ivo Cutzarida, David Herman, Rene Raymond Rivera, Matt Bradford

Votes: 77

81. Strange New World (1975 TV Movie)

100 min | Sci-Fi

In the near future, a group of scientists living in a space ship wake up from a hibernation state and come back to an apocalyptic Earth.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: John Saxon, Kathleen Miller, Keene Curtis, James Olson

Votes: 392

82. Rewind (2013 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 76 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A team of military field operatives and civilian scientists must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack.

Director: Jack Bender | Stars: Shane McRae, Jennifer Ferrin, Robbie Jones, Keon Alexander

Votes: 1,623

83. Steel Magnolias (1990 TV Movie)

30 min | Comedy

Television pilot based on the film. Although the show wasn't picked up for the fall schedule, CBS did air the pilot in the summer of 1990.

Director: Thomas Schlamme | Stars: Cindy Williams, Sally Kirkland, Elaine Stritch, Polly Bergen

Votes: 65

84. Chameleon (1998 TV Movie)

R | 90 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

In 2028, a super-killer female genetic creation with chameleon-like powers discovers maternal instincts when she protects a child from government operatives.

Director: Stuart Cooper | Stars: Bobbie Phillips, Eric Lloyd, John Adam, Jerome Ehlers

Votes: 648

85. Returning Home (1975 TV Movie)

74 min | Drama

The story of three returning World War II veterans, and how they try to cope with returning to civilian life.

Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Dabney Coleman, Tom Selleck, James R. Miller, Whitney Blake

Votes: 42

86. Kook's Tour (1970)

Not Rated | 53 min | Comedy, Family

After nearly 50 years of eye-poking and face-slapping, the Stooges decide to retire and tour the world with their dog, Moose. They start by touring America's national parks, however, with ... See full summary »

Director: Norman Maurer | Stars: Joe DeRita, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Norman Maurer

Votes: 239

87. Gotham (TV Movie)

60 min | Drama, Fantasy

Unaired pilot which revolves around a female cop who discovers a magical world that exists within New York City that is unseen by normal humans and reinvents popular landmarks in a magical otherworldly manner.

Director: Francis Lawrence | Stars: Barry Sloane, Megan Ketch, Justine Cotsonas, Jaden Michael

88. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2000 TV Movie)

R | 105 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

The Hong Kong martial arts version of Jekyll and Hyde, with Hyde as the mythical fighting champion known as the White Tiger battling the Triads, drug trafficking and illegal organ transplants.

Director: Colin Budds | Stars: Adam Baldwin, Steve Bastoni, Anthony Brandon Wong, Jason Chong

Votes: 416

89. The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy (1998 TV Movie)

97 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

In the future, galactic civil war destroys the human space civilization and a new Dark Age begins. On a distant planet, a scavenger looking for his abducted sister teams up with a former general who wishes to rebuild the Galactic Republic.

Director: Joe Dante | Stars: John Corbett, Carolyn McCormick, John Pyper-Ferguson, Elisabeth Harnois

Votes: 277

90. Poor Devil (1973 TV Movie)

73 min | Comedy, Fantasy

A young down on his luck resident of Hell (Sammy Davis, Jr.) is given a chance to redeem himself by signing up a down on his luck retail accountant to sell his soul to Lucifer.

Director: Robert Scheerer | Stars: Sammy Davis Jr., Christopher Lee, Jack Klugman, Adam West

Votes: 195

91. Catch-22 (1973 TV Movie)

30 min | Comedy, War

Stationed in Italy with the USAF during World War Two, Captain Yossarian flouts authority and tries not to get killed.

Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Dana Elcar, Frank Welker, Stewart Moss

Votes: 131

92. Northstar (1986 TV Movie)

90 min | Sci-Fi

An astronaut's ship passes through a strange magnetic field on its way back to Earth, and when he emerges from it after landing, he finds he has acquired superhuman powers and a super-genius IQ.

Director: Peter Levin | Stars: Greg Evigan, Deborah Wakeham, Mitchell Ryan, Mason Adams

Votes: 191

93. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 74 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson, try to solve the murder of the heir to the Baskerville fortune.

Director: Barry Crane | Stars: Stewart Granger, Bernard Fox, William Shatner, Anthony Zerbe

Votes: 385

94. True Grit: A Further Adventure (1978 TV Movie)

100 min | Western

The further adventures of 'True Grit' Rooster Cogburn which has him battling injustice in his own unorthodox way while contending with a teenage girl bent on reforming him.

Director: Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Warren Oates, Lisa Pelikan, Lee Meriwether, James Stephens

Votes: 215

95. 111 Gramercy Park (2003 TV Movie)

Drama

Unsold series pilot about wealthy New Yorkers who live in an upscale apartment building, and the various maids, nannies and maintenance people who work for them.

Director: Bill D'Elia | Stars: Frank Langella, Peter Strauss, Erica Durance, Brittany Daniel

Votes: 73

96. Shotgun Love Dolls (2001 TV Movie)

Action, Adventure, Family

Beth's ordinary teen life is turned upside down when she finds that her dream is now her reality and that she is living in an alternate Universe where she is the newest member of an all girls crime fighting team.

Director: T.J. Scott | Stars: Rachel McAdams, Steve Byers, Jeff Geddis, Ingrid Hart

Votes: 80

97. Mrs. Sundance (1974 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

The girlfriend of the Sundance Kid is on the run with a price on her head, when she hears rumors that the Sundance Kid may still be alive.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Robert Foxworth, L.Q. Jones, Arthur Hunnicutt

Votes: 326

98. Ice Planet (2001)

83 min | Sci-Fi

The end of our world is the beginning of another.

Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Reiner Schöne, Sab Shimono, James O'Shea, Valeriy Nikolaev

Votes: 1,068

99. Lookwell (1991 TV Movie)

30 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

The former star of a cancelled cop TV show solves crimes. Pilot episode for a TV series that was never picked up.

Director: E.W. Swackhamer | Stars: Adam West, Ron Frazier, Ann Weldon, Todd Field

Votes: 563

100. Fluppy Dogs (1986 TV Movie)

TV-G | 45 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

A band of dimension hopping humanoid dogs need the help of two kids to return home.

Director: Fred Wolf | Stars: Marshall Efron, Carl Steven, Cloyce Morrow, Hal Smith

Votes: 351