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51. The Echo (I) (2008)
R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An ex-con moves into an old apartment building, where he encounters a domestic problem involving a police officer, his wife, and their daughter. When he tries to intervene, however, a mysterious curse entraps him.
Director: Yam Laranas | Stars: Jesse Bradford, Amelia Warner, Carlos Leon, Iza Calzado
Votes: 6,068
52. The Ghost Train (1941)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Horror
High jinks and chills ensue when a group of people become stranded at an isolated station and a legendary phantom train approaches.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Kathleen Harrison, Peter Murray-Hill
Votes: 1,656
53. The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
William Pittman Priest has to use all his wiles to retain his position as judge in his Kentucky hometown, while continuing to be a voice for the town's underclass and for democratic values.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Charles Winninger, Arleen Whelan, John Russell, Stepin Fetchit
Votes: 1,811
54. Back from Eternity (1956)
Approved | 97 min | Adventure, Drama
After a commercial plane crash lands in a South American jungle, the passengers and pilots must patch up the engines and escape the cannibal-infested area.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg, Rod Steiger, Phyllis Kirk
Votes: 1,635
55. Mother India (1957)
Not Rated | 172 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
In this melodrama, a poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, she always sticks to her own moral code.
Director: Mehboob Khan | Stars: Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar Tuli, Raaj Kumar
Votes: 9,854
56. A Royal Scandal (1945)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In 18th century Russia, the naive and idealistic lieutenant Chernov meets Empress Catherine the Great who becomes infatuated with him and appoints him Chief of the Imperial Guard.
Directors: Otto Preminger, Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter, William Eythe
Votes: 1,213
57. The Bat Whispers (1930)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A master criminal terrorizes the occupants of an isolated country mansion.
Director: Roland West | Stars: Chester Morris, Una Merkel, William Bakewell, Grayce Hampton
Votes: 1,147
58. That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy
A psychoanalyst causes a woman to doubt her happy marriage.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, Burgess Meredith, Alan Mowbray
Votes: 2,986
59. Just One Time (II) (1998)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When the fiancée of a fireman reluctantly agrees to participate in a ménage-a-trois with another woman, she does so on the condition that he reciprocate the favor with another man. This ultimately puts their impending marriage in jeopardy.
Director: Lane Janger | Stars: Lane Janger, Joelle Carter, Guillermo Diaz, Jennifer Esposito
Votes: 788 | Gross: $0.02M
60. Destry (1954)
Approved | 95 min | Western
A dishonest mayor and powerful criminal dominate a small western town. But when the town's sheriff dies under mysterious circumstances, Tom Destry, son of a famed gunman, is called in to put an end to the corruption.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Lyle Bettger, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 1,634
61. Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (1998)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
Billy is a gay fine-arts photographer who falls in love with straight coffee-shop waiter Gabriel.
Director: Tommy O'Haver | Stars: Sean Hayes, Brad Rowe, Armando Valdes-Kennedy, Mr. Dan
Votes: 3,987 | Gross: $2.02M
62. VIrgin People III (2002)
114 min | Drama
Director: Celso Ad. Castillo | Stars: Barbara Milano, Allona Amor, Monina Perez, Celso Ad. Castillo
Votes: 52
63. Fin de semana al desnudo (1974)
93 min | Comedy
The hotel waitress and Rodolfo, a playboy who is going to spend a few days there with Octavia, witness how a wealthy lady, who is being robbed by some thieves, is accidentally killed by her lover during an argument
Director: Mariano Ozores | Stars: Lina Morgan, Alfredo Landa, Máximo Valverde, Antonio Ozores
Votes: 87
64. Once a Thief (1996 TV Movie)
R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A couple working for the triad boss Tang decides to leave/flee the triad and Hong Kong. They meet again in Vancouver 1.5 years later fighting crime. She now has a fiance. The Tang triad comes to Vancouver to do weapons "business".
Director: John Woo | Stars: Sandrine Holt, Ivan Sergei, Nicholas Lea, Robert Ito
Votes: 1,798
65. Jesus Henry Christ (2011)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy
At the age of ten, Henry James Herman, a boy who was conceived in a petri-dish and raised by his feminist mother, follows a string of Post-It notes in hopes of finding his biological father.
Director: Dennis Lee | Stars: Jason Spevack, Toni Collette, Michael Sheen, Samantha Weinstein
Votes: 6,300 | Gross: $0.02M
66. Virgin People 2 (1996)
116 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Celso Ad. Castillo | Stars: Sunshine Cruz, Sharmaine Suarez, Ana Capri, Tonton Gutierrez
Votes: 54
67. Frankenstein Island (1981)
PG | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When a hot-air balloon crashes on a remote island, the crew discovers Dr. Frankenstein's ancestor carrying on the family work, along with a race of mutants and a population of Amazons.
Director: Jerry Warren | Stars: Robert Clarke, Steve Brodie, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Christopher
Votes: 1,301
68. Riding High (1950)
Passed | 112 min | Comedy
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Bing Crosby, Coleen Gray, Charles Bickford, Frances Gifford
Votes: 591
69. The Rickshaw Man (1958)
103 min | Drama
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Chishû Ryû
Votes: 1,173
70. Lydia (1941)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, Romance
Four friends reminisce in old age. Each of the men had been in love with the main character, Lydia. The interweaving stories reveal the reason why she never married any of them and, indeed, never married at all.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Merle Oberon, Joseph Cotten, Edna May Oliver, Alan Marshal
Votes: 886
71. The Pace That Kills (1935)
PG | 68 min | Crime, Drama
A drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother and turns them into "cocaine fiends."
Director: William A. O'Connor | Stars: Lois January, Noel Madison, Sheila Bromley, Dean Benton
Votes: 700
72. I Accuse (1938)
95 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A traumatized World War I veteran builds a machine to prevent war. When the government subverts his machine and a second world war seems increasingly inevitable, in desperation the inventor summons the ghosts of the war dead to protest.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Victor Francen, Line Noro, Sylvie Gance, Marcel Delaître
Votes: 660
73. Storm Over the Nile (1955)
Approved | 107 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A CinemaScope remake of The Four Feathers (1939).
Directors: Zoltan Korda, Terence Young | Stars: Anthony Steel, Laurence Harvey, James Robertson Justice, Mary Ure
Votes: 619
74. Savage Pampas (1965)
Not Rated | 112 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
In the late 1800s, an army captain tries to tame the open plains of Argentina, which are dominated by Indians and bandits. To help do this, the captain brings in a party of women to keep his soldiers happy.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Robert Taylor, Mario Lozano, Felicia Roc, Ángel del Pozo
Votes: 424
75. Mary (1931)
78 min | Mystery, Thriller
A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Alfred Abel, Olga Tschechowa, Paul Graetz, Lotte Stein
Votes: 991
76. Poil de carotte (1932)
91 min | Drama
A red-haired boy is his mother's punching bag ; only his father's presence is a great comfort to him,but this weak man is under the shrew's thumb. His pain is so great he feels suicidal.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Harry Baur, Robert Lynen, Louis Gauthier, Simone Aubry
Votes: 749
77. The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957)
Approved | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History
Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna
Votes: 567
78. The Plank (1979 TV Movie)
28 min | Comedy
This is a pantomime about two construction workers, who discover that a plank is missing from the floor they are just building. They discover that two children have taken the plank and use ... See full summary »
Director: Eric Sykes | Stars: Eric Sykes, Arthur Lowe, Lionel Blair, Henry Cooper
Votes: 706
79. Perazhagan (2004)
Not Rated | 143 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Chinna, a hunchbacked phone booth operator, loves a blind street dancer and wants to help her regain her sight. Kartik, his lookalike, is a constable in love with the commissioner's daughter.
Director: Sasi Shankar | Stars: Suriya, Jyotika, Vivek, Aachi Manorama
Votes: 1,643
80. Wives Under Suspicion (1938)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A prosecutor trying a case where a husband shot his adulterous wife begins to suspect that his own wife is having an affair, and starts to have his own thoughts about killing her.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Warren William, Gail Patrick, Ralph Morgan, William Lundigan
Votes: 533
81. Arangetra Velai (1990)
154 min | Comedy, Thriller
Three unemployed people - two men and one woman - find the answer to their money problems when they receive a call from a kidnapper through a cross connection.
Director: Fazil | Stars: Prabhu, Revathi, V.K. Ramasamy, Janakaraj
Votes: 212
82. Tenkôsei: Sayonara anata (2007)
120 min | Drama
A Japanese boy and girl meet again at 15 at school after many years apart. They magically switch bodies. They are forced to switch lives as well.
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Misako Renbutsu, Naoyuki Morita, Takuro Atsuki, Hiroshi
Votes: 313
83. The Burmese Harp (1985)
133 min | Drama, War
After becoming separated from his platoon, a Japanese soldier dons a Buddhist monk's robe and tends to the bodies of the many war casualties strewn across the countryside.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Kôji Ishizaka, Kiichi Nakai, Takuzô Kawatani, Atsushi Watanabe
Votes: 196
84. Inugami-ke no ichizoku (2006)
134 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A web of deceit, adultery and greed manifests in Kon Ichikawa's remake of his own 1976 hit about a murder investigation that reveals years of hidden skeletons and a shocking family secret.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Kôji Ishizaka, Nanako Matsushima, Kikunosuke Onoe, Sumiko Fuji
Votes: 421
85. Allá en el Rancho Grande (1949)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Director: Fernando de Fuentes | Stars: Jorge Negrete, Lilia del Valle, Eduardo Noriega, Armando Soto La Marina
Votes: 108
86. Seenu (1999)
Romance
A country man comes to city to meet his friends and with ego, he pretends as a dumb person for the sake of friendship with his girlfriend.
Director: Sashi | Stars: Venkatesh Daggubati, Twinkle Khanna, Prakash Raj, Brahmanandam
Votes: 248
87. Swarg Narak (1978)
Not Rated | 164 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Our story has three married couples: One couple, who are happily married, are Tripathi (Sanjeev Kumar) and his wife Mary; the second couple are Geeta (Shabana Azmi) and Vinod (Vinod Mehra),... See full summary »
Director: Dasari Narayana Rao | Stars: Sanjeev Kumar, Jeetendra, Vinod Mehra, Moushumi Chatterjee
Votes: 81
88. The Bros. (2007)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Music
This outrageously hysterical urban comedy follows the lives and crimes of two wannabe white boys as they try to break into the world of hardcore "gangsta" rap.
Director: Jonathan Figg | Stars: John Tindall, Joachim Wiese, Joey Fatone, Dennis Scott
Votes: 259
89. Road to Paradise (1930)
TV-G | 74 min | Drama
A young woman falls in with a gang of criminals, and when they rob a wealthy socialite's house, she finds her long-lost twin sister.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Loretta Young, Jack Mulhall, Raymond Hatton, George Barraud
Votes: 264
90. The Battle of the Sexes (1928)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy
Gum-chewing frizzy-haired gold-digger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly, middle-aged real estate tycoon, William Judson. Marie ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Jean Hersholt, Phyllis Haver, Belle Bennett, Sally O'Neil
Votes: 513
91. Three Musketeers (1932)
246 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Young d'Artagnan leaves Gascony for Paris where he hopes to become a Musketeer of the Guard. He does meet three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, but totally by chance and for... a ... See full summary »
Director: Henri Diamant-Berger | Stars: Blanche Montel, Aimé Simon-Girard, Edith Méra, Henri Rollan
Votes: 68
92. Outside the Law (1930)
Passed | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Fingers is planning a half-million-dollar bank robbery in gang boss Cobra Collins' territory. Fingers' moll Connie tries to bluff Cobra into thinking the hit won't be for another week when the call comes through saying it's now.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Mary Nolan, Edward G. Robinson, Owen Moore, Rockliffe Fellowes
Votes: 225
93. Varietés (1971)
99 min | Drama, Musical
Spain 1930s. A troupe of performers travel from city to city entertaining audiences and earning a living. The cast includes a magician, a ventriloquist, muscle men, dancers, singers and a ... See full synopsis »
Director: Juan Antonio Bardem | Stars: Sara Montiel, Vicente Parra, Chris Avram, Trini Alonso
Votes: 79
94. The Squaw Man (1931)
Passed | 107 min | Drama, Western
Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry. In Wyoming, Wyngate runs afoul of ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Warner Baxter, Lupe Velez, Eleanor Boardman, Charles Bickford
Votes: 420
95. The Torch (1950)
Passed | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A revolutionary and his band take over a small Mexican town. The townspeople begin to take sides over whether to fight him, join forces with him or just try to get along with him.
Director: Emilio Fernández | Stars: Paulette Goddard, Pedro Armendáriz, Gilbert Roland, Walter Reed
Votes: 230
96. The Squaw Man (1918)
60 min | Drama, Western
Captain Wynnegate leaves England, accepting the blame for embezzling charity funds though knowing that his cousin Sir Henry is guilty. Out West he and the Indian girl Nat-U-Rich save each ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Elliott Dexter, Ann Little, Katherine MacDonald, Theodore Roberts
Votes: 45 | Gross: $0.62M
97. La aldea maldita (1942)
62 min | Drama
In a measly Castilian village, the farmer Juan Castilla, his wife Acacia, a son and a blind grandfather, live the lives of poor farmers. Because of a litigation with the local petty tyrant,... See full summary »
Director: Florián Rey | Stars: Florencia Bécquer, Julio Rey de las Heras, Delfín Jerez, Agustín Laguilhoat
Votes: 84
98. Poove Poochudava (1985)
130 min | Drama
An elderly woman who is rich lives alone in a town. However, her life changes for the better when her granddaughter comes to live with her.
Director: Fazil | Stars: Anand, Girdar, Jaishankar, Nadia Moidu
Votes: 150
99. Lie ren (1969)
96 min | Mystery
After one of his lovers committed suicide, a young playboy involved to a mysteries death of his lovers one by one. Meanwhile his girlfriend try to discover the truth about the incident.
Director: Kô Nakahira | Stars: Yin Fang, Han Chin, Wen Ching Cheng, Po-Chien Chin
Votes: 35
100. Dreaming Lips (1937)
94 min | Drama
Tragic story of the wife of a violin player in a famous orchestra, who falls in love with her husband's friend, and finally drowns herself.
Directors: Paul Czinner, Lee Garmes | Stars: Elisabeth Bergner, Raymond Massey, Romney Brent, Joyce Bland
Votes: 35