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1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
PG | 142 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
British agent James Bond goes undercover to pursue the villainous Ernst Stavro Blofeld, who is planning to hold the world to ransom.
Director: Peter R. Hunt | Stars: George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Gabriele Ferzetti
Votes: 99,389 | Gross: $22.80M
2. Seven Pounds (2008)
PG-13 | 123 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A man with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
Director: Gabriele Muccino | Stars: Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy
Votes: 315,127 | Gross: $69.95M
3. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Approved | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 137,745 | Gross: $8.18M
4. Oliver! (1968)
G | 153 min | Drama, Family, Musical
After being sold to a mortician, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor in 1830s London.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed
Votes: 41,384 | Gross: $16.80M
5. Marnie (1964)
PG | 130 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Martin Gabel, Louise Latham
Votes: 53,817 | Gross: $7.00M
6. Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
Not Rated | 113 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince, Morris Carnovsky
Votes: 4,568
7. Spellbound (1945)
Approved | 111 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance
A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll
Votes: 52,213 | Gross: $7.00M
8. Sleuth (1972)
PG | 138 min | Mystery, Thriller
A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne, John Matthews
Votes: 50,146 | Gross: $4.08M
9. The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
Approved | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A New York socialite climbs the ladder of success man by man until a life among rich gangsters gives her what she thought she always wanted.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran, Kent Smith
Votes: 3,546 | Gross: $1.54M
10. House of Dark Shadows (1970)
GP | 97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Vampire Barnabas Collins is accidentally released from his centuries-long confinement at his family's estate in Maine. He targets his clueless descendants who live there now and pursues Maggie, the incarnation of his lost love.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Jonathan Frid, Grayson Hall, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Roger Davis
Votes: 3,433 | Gross: $4.00M
11. She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member.
Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland
Votes: 7,035 | Gross: $4.80M
12. Libeled Lady (1936)
Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Romance
When a socialite sues a big paper for libel, the editor responsible calls in the help of his ignored fiancée and a former employee to frame her and make the false story seem true.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy
Votes: 8,905
13. The Chalk Garden (1964)
Approved | 106 min | Drama, Mystery
An elderly woman hires a governess with a mysterious past to look after her disturbed, spoiled teenage granddaughter, who eventually understands the meaning of self-sacrifice as an example of love and grows into a better person.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Deborah Kerr, Hayley Mills, John Mills, Edith Evans
Votes: 2,490
14. The Whole Truth (1958)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A movie executive is framed for the murder of his beautiful promiscuous leading lady by her jealous, estranged husband.
Directors: John Guillermin, Dan Cohen | Stars: Stewart Granger, Donna Reed, George Sanders, Gianna Maria Canale
Votes: 545
15. The Swindle (1955)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A trio of con-men led by a lonesome swindler must deal with their job and family pressures.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Giulietta Masina, Franco Fabrizi
Votes: 6,891
16. The Horse's Mouth (1958)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy
An ill-behaved, lovably scruffy painter, Gulley Jimson, searches for a perfect canvas, determined to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston, Mike Morgan
Votes: 3,858
17. That's My Life (2014–2017)
140 min | Crime, Drama
Bahar, who does not know that she is adopted, lives under the pressure of her poor family. When her rich family is discovered, her stepmother substitutes her own daughter for Bahar and steals Bahar's life.
Stars: Ezgi Asaroglu, Keremcem, Ceren Moray, Görkem Gönülsen
Votes: 851
18. Never Let Me Go (1953)
Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
An American reporter stationed in post-war Moscow marries a ballet dancer, but their relationship is threatened by the country's political volatility.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Clark Gable, Gene Tierney, Bernard Miles, Richard Haydn
Votes: 901
19. Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
Approved | 79 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
The daughter of a wealthy businessman becomes lost in the city while traveling to a new school, and is taken in by a pair of down-on-their-luck performers.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Gloria Stuart, Jack Haley
Votes: 1,588
20. Sea Devils (1953)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Gilliat,a fisherman/smuggler is in jail, and is offered a pardon if he undertakes a mission to sail to France to rescue Droucette, an English agent whose cover has been blown, and who has now been jailed. Gilliat accepts the challenge.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson, Maxwell Reed, Denis O'Dea
Votes: 780
21. Shock Treatment (1964)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An actor hired to locate $1 million in stolen loot endures the rigors of an insane asylum.
Director: Denis Sanders | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall, Lauren Bacall
Votes: 613
22. Pretty Poison (1968)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
When a mentally-disturbed young man tells a pretty girl that he's a secret agent, she believes him; murder and mayhem ensue.
Director: Noel Black | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland, John Randolph
Votes: 3,980
23. Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)
Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
An opium-addicted choirmaster develops an obsession for a beautiful young girl and will not stop short of murder in order to have her.
Director: Stuart Walker | Stars: Claude Rains, Douglass Montgomery, Heather Angel, David Manners
Votes: 605
24. Great Guy (1936)
Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The adventures of an investigator (Cagney) for the Bureau of Weights and Measures.
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: James Cagney, Mae Clarke, James Burke, Edward Brophy
Votes: 1,138
25. The Thief (1952)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A chance accident causes a nuclear physicist, who's selling top secret material to the Russians, to fall under FBI scrutiny and go on the run.
Director: Russell Rouse | Stars: Ray Milland, Martin Gabel, Harry Bronson, Rita Grapel
Votes: 1,253
26. Frig (2018)
60 min | Drama
Frig is the third part of a trilogy: the end of a romantic relationship in three parts: Love, poop and sperm.
Director: Antony Hickling | Stars: Biño Sauitzvy, Luc Bruyère, Arthur Gillet, Alvaro Lombard
Votes: 96
27. My Sweet Charlie (1970 TV Movie)
G | 97 min | Drama
A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they both need each other in order to survive.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Patty Duke, Al Freeman Jr., Ford Rainey, William Hardy
Votes: 275
28. El marqués, la menor y el travesti (1983)
75 min | Comedy
Gold-digging Alicia goes to great lengths to get a smooth and handsome Count.
Director: Alfonso Balcázar | Stars: Concha Valero, Jordi Batalla, Andrea Albani, Joaquín Gómez
Votes: 60
29. A Lady Without Passport (1950)
Approved | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
During the 1950s, an undercover U.S. Immigration investigator travels to Cuba to bust a crime ring that smuggles illegal-aliens into the USA but he falls in love with a smuggled woman.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak, James Craig, George Macready
Votes: 917
30. Once More, My Darling (1949)
92 min | Comedy
An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical jewels in occupied Germany and the trail leads to the boyfriend of a young debutante from Bel Air.
Directors: Robert Montgomery, Michael Gordon | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Ann Blyth, Jane Cowl, Charles McGraw
Votes: 235
31. The Safecracker (1958)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama, War
A British safe cracker goes to prison but when World War II starts he's recruited by army intelligence and is sent to German-occupied Belgium to crack the safe of a German Abwehr unit located in a chateau.
Director: Ray Milland | Stars: Ray Milland, Barry Jones, Jeanette Sterke, Victor Maddern
Votes: 450
32. Five Bold Women (1960)
Approved | 82 min | Western
A Texas Marshal transports five female prisoners to prison but their stagecoach is attacked en route by the Comanches and the ex-husband of one prisoner attempts to free her.
Director: Jorge López Portillo | Stars: Jeff Morrow, Merry Anders, Jim Ross, Irish McCalla
Votes: 68
33. Military Academy (1940)
66 min | Drama
Tommy Lewis, the son of a big time racketeer, is enrolled in military school under an assumed name as protection from the notoriety of his father. Tommy is assigned to share a room with ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Tommy Kelly, Bobby Jordan, David Holt, Jackie Searl
Votes: 23
34. Fanny Hill Meets the Red Baron (1968)
Unrated | 72 min
Director: Barry Mahon | Stars: Susan Evans, Kristen Steen, Cherie Winters
35. Ontmaskerd (1915)
65 min | Drama
The story revolves around extortion and blackmail, in which a known impostor makes the lives of the others impossible.
Director: Mime Misu | Stars: Annie Bos, Jack Hamel, Johannes Langenaken, Emmy Arbous
36. I leoforos tis prodosias (1969)
95 min | Drama, Mystery
Captain Vergos escapes from Albania, where he was captive, and returns to Greece. But he is captured as a spy because Captain Vergos had escaped a year ago and had returned to his duties. ... See full summary »
Director: Hristos Kyriakopoulos | Stars: Giorgos Foundas, Gely Mavropoulou, Manos Katrakis, Zoras Tsapelis
Votes: 31
37. Queer I (2019)
7 min | Short
Directors: Antony Hickling, Ciro Cavalcanti, Danielle Menezes | Stars: Ciro Cavalcanti, Nini de Barros, Davis Delanus, Wanderlei Faini
Votes: 25
38. The Measure of a Man (1924)
50 min | Drama
Overcoming his addiction to drink, John Fairmeadow leaves the Bowery for a western logging camp posing as a minister. His fistic ability and his gentle manner reform the town drinkers and ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Rosson | Stars: William Desmond, Albert J. Smith, Francis Ford, Marin Sais
39. The Duchess of Doubt (1917)
50 min | Comedy, Romance
Clover Ames's life consists only of the drudge work that she performs at her Aunt Sarah's boardinghouse. No longer able to withstand her aunt's abuse, Clover runs away and obtains a job as ... See full summary »
Director: George D. Baker | Stars: Emmy Wehlen, Ricca Allen, Frank Currier, George Christie
40.
Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode:
Body Double
(2008)
TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
During a performance of "Macbeth" in a venerable Toronto theater, a desiccated body breaks through the floor and lands with a chandelier just missing Lady Macbeth.
Director: Shawn Thompson | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris
Votes: 399
41.
L'île aux enfants (1974–1976)
Episode:
Une comtesse dans l'île
(1975)
7 min | Comedy, Family
Director: Pierre Desfons | Stars: Yves Brunier, Éliane Gauthier, Henri Bon, Jean-Louis Terrangle
42.
L'île aux enfants (1974–1976)
Episode:
Le manant snob
(1975)
8 min | Comedy, Family
Director: Pierre Desfons | Stars: Yves Brunier, Patrick Bricard, Éliane Gauthier, Henri Bon